NET NEUTRALITY

Neutrality is an irrepressible tendency of networks, and platforms that try to close off a domain and exert too much control risk suffocating their community or being sidestepped altogether. Even the internet as a whole is subject to subversion if the principle of neutrality cannot be sustained, as illustrated by the local networks utilized during the Hong Kong protests and Occupy Wall Street.

Platforms should facilitate certain types of connections through porous membranes rather than limit behavior by sealing off an area hermetically.

“You can never get rid of ants because they form an animal rhizome that can rebound time and again after most of it has been destroyed.”

— Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari