I don't think banning countries from the Internet is the answer, but net neutrality seems like a completely separate issue.

Net neutrality is about carriers treating all traffic equally. Banning a country from the internet is discriminating traffic by origin. That sounds like a net neutrality issue if there ever was one. Whether the discrimination happens in the hardware or in the software stack is a mere implementation detail.

> Net neutrality is about carriers treating all traffic equally

If it was simply "about" that, then that would include DDOS traffic. Which no one in their right mind wants to treat equally.

Sure it is, but if some carriers are a state-sponsored arm of a bad actor and are told by their masters not to treat traffic equally, thus breaking the net neutrality pact, then what are the responsibilities of the the other carriers?

Worms, meet can.

So because the Chinese government are being hostile, all the chinese companies innocently doing their own business should have their comms cut off as well? Chinese families should not be able to contact their travelling members? This is definitively the exact same issue - the Chinese government is not the only entity to use the Chinese intertubes.

Did you miss the part in my 20-word comment where I said "I don't think banning countries from the internet is the answer"?

I worded it poorly, but my point was that this is the exact same issue.

I disagree with parent but I have learned from this case that anyone with access to a major CDN or the great firewall can take down any website. There is unbalanced power. What if I don't have access to the OPs team of github?