{"id":5419,"date":"2009-02-23T13:30:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T21:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/?p=5419"},"modified":"2009-02-23T13:30:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T21:30:54","slug":"neutralism-is-the-new-s-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/23\/neutralism-is-the-new-s-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Neutralism is the new S-word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tScott Cleland has done some interesting quote-diving from the works of the neutralists, offering up his findings <a href=\"http:\/\/netcompetition.org\/Neutralism_the_ideology_behind_net_neutrality.pdf\">in a new study<\/a>.  Without using the term &#8220;socialism&#8221; Scott provides the evidence that this is largely an anti-capitalist movement. The fact that a few highly-profitable capitalist enterprises have found a way to manipulate a rather traditional form of digital utopian socialism for their own ends is the real news, however.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, enjoy Scott&#8217;s paper and think about the notion of a &#8220;digital kibbutz&#8221; while you&#8217;re doing it. Now that we live in a time where government owns the banking system, &#8220;socialism&#8221; isn&#8217;t a bad word in all contexts automatically, but we do have to understand that we need to apply different expectations to government-managed systems than we do to privately-managed ones. It&#8217;s not as obvious to me as it is to the neutralists that government is more likely to give us universal high-speed connectivity than is business. <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: See comments for a critique of Scott&#8217;s analysis by Brett Glass.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Cleland has done some interesting quote-diving from the works of the neutralists, offering up his findings in a new study. Without using the term &#8220;socialism&#8221; Scott provides the evidence that this is largely an anti-capitalist movement. The fact that a few highly-profitable capitalist enterprises have found a way to manipulate a rather traditional form &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/23\/neutralism-is-the-new-s-word\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Neutralism is the new S-word&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1pp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}