Net Neutrality Reloaded

How does net neutrality fit within today's neoliberal politics? In short, it doesn't! Here we use neoliberalism to denote an uncritical vision of unregulated markets, privatization of public assets and resources, and antipathy to public support of social programs that's affiliated with crony rather than laissez-faire capitalism. Under this definition, government largely serves the interests of the power elite and military industrial complex-through corporate welfare (government subsidies/subsidy economics), procorporate tax policies (for example, foreign investment credits), loose monetary policy (for example, quantitative easing), deficit spending, and pro-monopolistic practices-and its legitimacy is measured by its potential contribution to corporate profit. To be sure, this use of the term has what Boas and Gans-Morse call a negative normative valence, as it's also associated with authoritarianism, corporatism, and statism.