Beyond Open Access, Net Neutrality: Cultural Anthropology Takes Action — Cultural Anthropology

"Anthropologists, like scholars everywhere, are committed to the ideal that we have a right both to speak and to listen: to circulate anthropology, and to live in a world where we can hear our interlocutors speak back. All of the podcasting, blogging, and open-access content in the world will matter not one whit if the foundation they rest on—an open and free Internet—is taken away from us. There is no point in publishing open-access journals in a world where people are priced out of reading them. There is no point in organizing on Twitter if your hashtags can be blocked. For us in particular, then, net neutrality should matter."