This is a specious article. The internet landscape is not like 3D space. One can agree to keep Antarctica demilitarized because it would be too expensive for a private person to 'militarize' it. The internet, anyone can 'militarize' it. So you have to have both offensive and defensive capabilities because the barrier to entry for militarization by any third party is trivial.<p>In addition, it would seem they are conflating a freedom of the public internet with keeping the internet medium free of maleficence. The latter is night impossible. The internet is a medium not an object.<p>The thing about Iran is that it was the best option. You don't refuse to use a tool like that over principle and instead choose a hardware or 'hot' war instead. It would be like refusing to use spies because spies are 'unseemly'. And to be strict, it was not done over the internet but via USB sticks.<p>It's an article to get people thinking but in reality it's self-satisfaction. I'm sure I could try to be cleaver and write something called 'the hypocrisy of amateur internet journalists'