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[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Actshually it's bandwidth censorship if you make something too heavy to be used then it won't get used. It is one of the things China is doing to separate their internet from the rest of the worlds, by having an internet so blazingly fast it is unbearable to goto the world wide web.

So yesh, the epstien class are making the news too slow for typical users to access. /maybe some sarcasm maybe not I'm not sure yet

EDIT: I have decided I was not being sarcastic. https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/reports/shining-a-light-on-the-slowdown-ioda-to-track-internet-bandwidth-throttling/


Episodes of network throttling have been reported in countries like Russia, Iran, Egypt, and Zimbabwe, and many more, especially during politically sensitive periods such as elections and protests. In some cases, entire regions such as Iran’s Khuzestan province have experienced indiscriminate throttling, regardless of the protocol or specific services in use. Throttling is particularly effective and appealing to authoritarian governments for several reasons: Throttling is simple to implement, difficult to detect or attribute and hard to circumvent.```

china is making webpages that are less than 20 megabytes........but at what cost?