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kleinbl00  ·  3974 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Verizon Using Recent Net Neutrality Victory to Wage War Against Netflix

If you look up "verizon throttling netflix" on Google, you see a bunch of 2nd-tier blogs and news sources all pointing at this article. I'm not sure I'd take the chatlog utterance of a Tier 1 tech support kid as gospel writ, particularly as half of their answers are some form of "yes sir, you're right sir, is there anything else sir so I can get started on this stack of 22 people piled up behind you."

Time Warner, on the other hand, has been throtting Youtube for lo these many months. Or at the very least, throwing it onto their pokiest DNS. Net Neutrality didn't do shit about that. Verizon might very well be doing the sameā€¦ or Netflix might just be sucking. The service is outright unusable on Roku due to Netflix itself deprecating the devices.

Considering recent plays, I doubt things are as simple as they appear.