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Comment on Twitter is throttling traffic to websites Elon dislikes

This has nothing to do with net neutrality. Either you didn’t read the article, you didn’t understand what you read, or you don’t understand what net neutrality means.

To your credit, the use of “throttles” in the headline is (likely intentionally) deceptive. It’s the wrong term entirely. What Xitter did was make their own servers wait ~5 seconds before serving an http redirect.

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teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Net Neutrality.

The principle that internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of source and without favoring, blocking, or throttling particular products or websites.

Sounds exactly like he is disregarding net neutrality to me.

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- Cubes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  internet service providers
  
  This is the key here, though. Twitter isn’t an ISP, they’re just making it more annoying when navigating from their site to elsewhere.
  
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  - KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Which is hilarious. This will only hurt them.
    
    People will just think Twitter is slow. Obviously Threads or NY Times will work normally when people are on those sites.
    
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  - teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Net neutrality is the concept of an open, equal internet for everyone, regardless of device, application or platform used and content consumed. You can argue semantics all day but twitter slowing traffic or redirects to certain other websites is violation of net neutrality if not the letter of the definition then for sure the spirit of it.
    
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- PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  He’s like the asshole bakers who won’t make the cake for the gay wedding. Or he’ll do it eventually but whine about it the entire time and it’ll arrive late and burnt.
  
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  - elscallr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’ve got no problem baking anyone a cake, but you’re right it’ll be late and burnt. I can’t bake for shit.
    
    But your assumption that I wouldn’t force anyone to bake that cake, you’re absolutely right.
    
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    PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I was talking about Elon but I’m sorry about your lack of baking skills if you wanted to be good at it or something.
    
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  - jimmux@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    While still expecting to get paid.
    
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- elscallr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s because you don’t know what an “internet service provider” is. Twitter is not one.
  
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brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It definitely draws direct parallels to net neutrality. It also shows the consolidation of web services into the hands of a few large corporations and the impact it has on the internet.

Im sure Twitter would argue that it’s not throttling, they don’t limit the speed in any way. But it does make it appear to end users as if the web site is loading slower.

It would be interesting if these sites could see a noticeable drop in traffic during the period Twitter was imposing delays on the redirect. If so, thats potential lost revenue and a basis for a lawsuit.

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