Net Neutrality as Diplomacy
Yale Law and Policy Review, December 17, 2010
By Jonathan Zittrain
To reject Net Neutrality and privilege specialized ISP content service is to embrace a narrow and increasingly unrealistic view of the Internet, one that sees it as just another product with features to be optimized across clumps of customers. The Internet is that, but it is more: It is the paramount way we communicate with one another, and the means by which we establish our own digital selves. To allow anyone to deny us access to any one of those repositories would deny the ways in which the Internet has become so foundational to our very identities.
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