Twitter is throttling traffic to websites Elon dislikes

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Doesn't that go against net neutrality?

Is Twitter an ISP?

Twitter is website that contains "links to" the other 5 websites. Those "links to other sites" are really links to Twitter scripts that do database queries before finally linking to the other sites for real. It is easy for elmo to insert delays in the process.

They repealed that anyways.

Not in Canada.

Did we ever have it in the first place? :>

Yes, actually. In Québec, Videotron offered a mobile data plan that included unlimited data exclusively for the Google Music service. The CRTC told them that this was illegal and it broke net neutrality laws.

I think I recall reading now that they had implemented it here. The whole "what happens there, happens here" dynamic made me cancel it out when they cancelled it down there I guess.

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