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Universidade De São Paulo Faculdade De Filosofia, Letras E Ciências Humanas Departamento De História Programa De Pós-graduação Em História Social
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| Author | Almeida, Tiago Dos Santos |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | TORRES, Aracele Lima. The free and open internet as an ideology: the net neutrality debate in Brazil and the United States. Tese (Doutorado). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. This work addresses the historical construction of a contemporary ideology that defends the view that the internet should be open and free. This ideology, called by many authors of ―cyberlibertarian‖ ideology, has a hybrid character and is defended by groups on the right and left side of the political spectrum. The vision that sustains it is the product of a synthesis made of cybernetic ideas of the 1940s, with an individualistic romanticism of the counterculture of the 1960s and the neoliberal discourse on the rise in the United States of the 1980s. This synthesis was carried out mainly by the countercultural catalog Whole Earth Catalog published in the 1960s in the USA and propagated by the network of people who articulated around this catalog and its derived publications. It emerged in the 1990s in the Silicon Valley region as an ideology, fueling the internet bubble and the discourse that the network was an exceptional, democratic and transparent media, a space for the exercise of freedom, and a greater example of the benefits of free market. In defining this discourse as ideological we argue here that it functions as a field of dispute for power and legitimation among significant social groups within society. In this sense, this ideology would not be exclusively benefiting any of the groups in dispute, but would obey the dynamics of fighting for political power, which sometimes puts one group in advantage, and sometimes puts another. The thesis that this ideology serves the neoliberal right-wing, defended by some authors, is thus countered here by us. Our thesis is that, although it has contributed to the restructuring of capitalism since the 1980s, and continues to contribute to the propagation of its practices in some contexts, this ideology also favors the flourishing of some practices that challenge it. So we must not believe that the left-wing groups are totally disarmed by this discourse and have necessarily in any and all situation their political resistance nullified by aligning themselves with it. To support our argument, we present the net neutrality debate, which has developed in several countries since the 2000s, as a clear demonstration of this. This debate, which is anchored in the defense of a neutral and open internet, can be a showcase through which we can perceive this ideology functioning as a field of disputes between left and right-wing groups. Through the comparison between the debate about net neutrality in Brazil and in the United States, it was possible to perceive that the implications of this discourse can manifest in even opposing directions, resulting, for example, in the defense of democracy or in the defense of the market. |
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| Language | English |
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