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Yes, because "duty" is such a technocratic argument? Maybe the reason people don't listen isn't because they don't have knowledge, but because hackers as a group, label or viewpoint are no longer necessarily that relevant?

I'm generally for net neutrality as stated in the article, but that's still mostly a political view. I've had it quite good in terms of Internet connection living in different parts of Europe. It's generally been fast and uncapped. But it's still been around 40€ per month or more. That's a lot of money for many people. And most people want to communicate with their friends, manage their bank accounts and read the news without having things break, get their data stolen or pay a lot of money for the pleasure.

Some esoteric ideas about freedom doesn't do it for many people. Heck, it doesn't even do it for me anymore and I largely understand the issues. What are you going to tell people when Microsoft, Netflix or other companies offer to pay for the bandwidth when you use their services so you can download updates and watch movies for a cheaper price? That they are missing out on setting up their own Linux server to run a bitcoin market via tor?

At some point these freedom has to boil down to something tangible for normal people, otherwise I'm not sure what the point of having them or if we even deserve them.