The future of the Internet is debated in a series of articles in Svenska Dagbladet. The third article is a response to the first one, which I commented on a couple of days ago.

After referring to the sceptical view that the authors of the first article take on increased political governance of the Internet, the (ab)use of the word democracy is nicely illustrated in the following quote (my translation):

We do not think that it is unfair to suspect that behind such a description of the situation, one will find the general scepsis of the right against ‘politics’, which is to say democracy.

The article discusses aspects of the control over the Internet that are worth debating, and that differ from the first article, but the political agenda shows…