A semantic interpretation that I'm coming around to as I work through Clark's 'Designing an Internet': if you're not running your own autonomous system, peering with other ASs, and administering your own DNS servers *at minimum*, then it isn't reasonable to consider yourself an 'Internet user'.

Most people who think of themselves as 'Internet users' are actually *customers* of Internet users - it's the ISPs that are actually using the Internet, and their customers are getting exactly as much access to the Internet (read: Netflix, Gmail, social media) as the ISPs deem acceptable.