X, formerly Twitter, slowed down access to Threads, The New York Times, Bluesky and more | TechCrunch
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X, formerly known as Twitter, is throttling traffic to websites that the social network's owner Elon Musk publicly dislikes.

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
      123·
      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.