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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,... (www.washingtonpost.com)

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[–] joshuaacasey@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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)

[–] Laukidh@infosec.pub 16 points 1 year ago

California passed its own net neutrality laws, but I think it only applies to ISPs.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] joshuaacasey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Twitter doesn’t have to remain neutral, they can block, throttle or redirect whatever they want. Yes, they can. But that doesn't stop that from being extremely anti net neutrality behavior. facepalm

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean it's shitty, but they are allowed to do it and probably should be allowed to do it. They aren't a public space even if they like to pretend like they are. Opaquely slowing down access to sites they don't like is pretty sketchy, but you can imagine if I started a Twitter competitor I might decide that I want to block outgoing links to sites spreading misinformation like InfoWars or something like that.

The government probably shouldn't step in and force me to allow those outgoing links in the name of 'neutrality'. It would be my right to control what content is posted to the website that I run. It's probably more ethical if I tell people what I'm doing and why, but no one is required to be there.