Discutiendo la neutralidad de la red: de los discursos dominantes a las prácticas en contextos periféricos

This paper is aimed at discussing dominant discourses regarding the so-called Net Neutrality (NN). In its most diffused definition NN is associated with equal treatment to all packages of information, independently from any variable regarding internauts who send and receive those packages. Our main argument is that such NN is hardly verified in actual internet functioning, even in countries where NN laws have been passed and enforced. This argument is unfolded through analyzing five empirical situations where packages receive an unequal treatment: traffic management, Content Delivery Networks, prioritization performed by search engines, differences regarding Internet speed between countries, and between upload and download, configuring a discrimination against peripheral countries