X, formerly known as Twitter, was throttling traffic to websites that the social network’s owner Elon Musk publicly dislikes. The platform slowed down the speed it takes when accessing links to a handful of websites, including The New York Times, Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, Threads, Reuters and Substack. The platform appears to be reversing the slow access to news sites on Tuesday afternoon.

  • evatronic@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Neutrality is about ISPs being content-neutral. Xfinity won’t block or slow down access to Netflix, for example.

    One website doing shitty things is just shitty. Twitter is not a ISP. If you don’t want to sit through their setTimeout(), go to the destination directly.

    Net neutrality has never been about forcing content platforms to accommodate their competitors.