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dave562 writes: "There was an interesting article posted on Zero Hedge lately on the throttling of Netflix.
'For years, the Netflix streaming business has been growing like a parasite, happy to piggyback on established broadband infrastructures, where the broadband companies themselves have becomes competitors to Netflix for both distribution and content. Until now. Emboldened by the recent Net Neutrality ruling, which has put bandwidth hogs like Netflix which at last check was responsible for over 30% of all downstream US internet traffic, broadband providers are finally making their move, and in a preliminary salvo whose ultimate compromise will be NFLX paying lots of money, have started to throttle Netflix traffic. The WSJ reports (Paywall) that the war between the broadband-ers and the video streaming company has finally emerged from the "cold" phase and is fully hot.'"
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Spinlock on Thursday February 20 2014, @08:13PM
This should not be front page Soylent News.
(Score: 5, Funny) by dereismdave on Thursday February 20 2014, @08:20PM
After 9 hours with no new stories... I'll take any article!
"If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all." - Johnny Cash
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @06:21AM
(Score: 3, Insightful) by joshuajon on Friday February 21 2014, @10:11AM
(Score: 2, Funny) by dereismdave on Friday February 21 2014, @11:03AM
Thank you for your wonderful response. I will submit a story titled "Identifying Sarcasm in a Forum Post" ASAP /sarcasm
"If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all." - Johnny Cash
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2014, @08:22PM
Agree. Not because of the subject matter, I think Netflix throttling is worthy of discussion, but most of us can't read a pay-walled article!
(Score: 2) by mattie_p on Thursday February 20 2014, @08:54PM
I just fixed that, read above for my explanation about that. Thanks for reading!
(Score: 2) by mattie_p on Thursday February 20 2014, @09:03PM
I'm sorry you feel that way. I already feel badly for omitting the original article [zerohedge.com], which I have now rectified. May I ask why you don't think this story should be here, in its corrected form? Thanks for reading! ~mattie_p
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Spinlock on Thursday February 20 2014, @10:41PM
It shows a clear bias. This is where editors are required.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Fluffeh on Thursday February 20 2014, @09:51PM
Not saying you don't have a right to an opinion, but this is EXACTLY the sort of story that I want on the front page of the site. It is mixing technology and yro in a single story. As a nerd, Net Neutrality and ISPs doing "dodgey shit" is exactly the sort of thing I don't want swept under the carpet.