The response to Internet service providers traffic shaping : is the response because internet is a place that we experience being changed without consent?

This article I read was about the internet and internet service providers (ISP) are practising “traffic shaping”. Traffic shaping is when the ISP limit how much speed that it customers get to download. It has implications for users of Bittorrent which is a site where you can download large files in the form of torrents. I just want to bring to attention the internet as a space. We talked about virtual places in class which made me think of this article. I am someone that does not believe that virtual places are actually places or spaces but reading this article makes me feel different. The reason why it makes me feel different is because of the amount of people that responded to this article. People were feeling betrayed by Rogers Inc and Bell Inc because their internet was slowed down. So if the internet was not a place why is there this attachment to the the fact that ISP’s were limiting it. It is because there is some sort of attachment and experience with this place. You are able to do what you please on the internet, create experiences like dating our downloading was an important factor to these people. If the internet is not a place then what it is? I also want to bring the attention that the internet has many geographies like many of the areas we consider places. The internet as a place has the geography of production and consumption in being able to buy things and sell things, it is also a place where experience fear and have many security measures to hackers. This is just some ideas that jumped out at me when reading this article.
By Ariana Peters
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/03/28/tech-netneutrality.html