Their entire business sounds like a way to circumvent network neutrality, by claiming their network of interconnected private networks is something other than the internet.
The idea being that if your ISP owns a game company that makes a popular FPS, they shouldn't be able to charge higher rates for packets that need high performance based on the fact that those packets are carrying content for a competing FPS.
I see no reason people shouldn't allowed to build interconnects not connected to the wider internet and charge for their use.
For what it’s worth there is definitely a market for this stuff. Starlink, hello?
Yeah that seems very reasonable and obviously not filled to the brim with a ridiculous level of hyperbole.
No, you are parsing his words incorrectly.
He is clearly equating the market demand for current-day private backbones to society's prior demand for human slavery. That's a ludicrous comparison.
If you think these two things are anywhere nearly the same, you are a mega dumbshit.