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Still not clear what’s actually happening. 1. DT no longer peers with Facebook for free, and Facebook isn’t willing to pay? A bit more latency for Facebook use
by mananaysiempre 2y ago
Still not clear what’s actually happening.
1. DT no longer peers with Facebook for free, and Facebook isn’t willing to pay? A bit more latency for Facebook users using DT, probably a small drop in Facebook visits from DT due to that, but overall, big whoop.
2. That + DT throttles Facebook traffic aggressively in retaliation? That would count as “undermining net neutrality principles” and bad in general. But it’s the kind of thing that already happens in a lot of places generally speaking (don’t know about Germany specifically), and we should push telecom and/or antitrust regulators to prohibit it, but I’d say there’s no urgency here.
3. That + DT sells customers some sort of “Internet except without Facebook, pay more to get Facebook” or “Internet except with slow Facebook, pay more to get fast Facebook”? That would officially be a Very Bad Thing, worth boycotts and other kinds of shouting from the rooftops.
The post is very very unclear about what’s actually happened. The actual court decision is about something like 1, but the talk of a “de facto paywall” would imply 3. Overall, I feel trampled by a Gish-galloping cavalry regiment here.
- rsingel 2y agoDT tries to make everyone that peers pay them. Facebook used to pay the ransom, then decided to stop. Now its going to move to a transit connection. The problem is DT keeps its transit routes congested or artificially limits how much traffic a transit provider can deliver. So now when FB moves to transit, will DT widen those connections or will it keep them narrow to try to make Facebook's applications get terrible enough performance that Facebook will pay DT. It's a showdown. DT wants to get paid twice for the same service, once by its subscribers and once by every app and website on the planet. https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2024/09/a-deutsche-telekom-shakedown-will-instagram-facebook-whatsapp-slow-to-a-crawl/ https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2024/09/a-deutsche-teleko..."
- SR2Z 2y agoFB should allow DT to degrade the quality of service and display a banner to DT users - the people it pisses off are going to be the Instagram-using public who in theory were the ones paying to connect to Facebook anyways.