- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news and websites he dislikes | The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times,…::undefined
Saw someone else make a good point. I hope all these people that shouted about supporting net neutrality back in the day will make noise about how anti net neutrality this is. (I doubt it, but it’d be nice)
California passed its own net neutrality laws, but I think it only applies to ISPs.
Net Neutrality doesn’t affect web sites and services, just how ISPs deliver content. Twitter doesn’t have to remain neutral, they can block, throttle or redirect whatever they want. We need to stop pretending like they are a town square, they aren’t and we shouldn’t expect them to behave like they are.