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I'm not conflating the two by any means. Two of the internet's shining sources of freedom are HTML and JavaScript especially when compared to the walled garden

• boomlinde 12y ago
  > I'm not conflating the two by any means. Two of the internet's shining sources of freedom are HTML and JavaScript especially when compared to the walled gardens of app stores. As far as I'm concerned, you are comparing two relatively small and often overlapping subsets of internet based technology, and you are making assumptions about the internet as a whole based on that comparison. I don't mean to say that you don't understand the difference between the words, but saying that HTML/JS offers the most freedom seems to ignore the less restrictive technologies it is built on. Surely, the ability to use an open source software stack to create a socket connection and send arbitrary data to a different machine across the network offers more freedom than HTML/JS in a general sense of the word. As for not all IP packets being transited equally, I'd say that it's more the result of internet freedom than it is of any sort of restrictive policiy. The way to stop it is either a more restrictive law, or an inconvenience great enough to get people to vote with their feet.