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Twitter is throttling traffic to websites Elon dislikes (www.washingtonpost.com)
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[–] 18 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    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 a violation of net neutrality. If not the letter of the definition then for sure the spirit of it.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    They're violating the spirit of net neutrality, but not the law. Since they aren't an ISP, they can't actually slow down or block you from accessing certain websites. The most they can do is slow down (or block) their own URL redirection service when its used to access to those domains. That's within their right of free speech, even if it's really fucking petty.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 years ago

    Just concede and learn from your mistake, because you're missing the point. Cloudflare throttles connections to sites as part of their DDoS protection, but that isn't even remotely related to net neutrality. On your site, you can do whatever you want, but ISPs preventing customers from accessing certain sites (or accessing them as they would "normal" sites) is what net neutrality is concerned with.

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