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Posted by tietjens 1/25/2026

Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet(netzbremse.de)
636 points | 311 commentspage 3
coretx 1/25/2026|
Nothing will come out of this unless all former state monopolists are targeted at the same time.
metanonsense 1/25/2026||
Honestly a crappy situation. In Germany, Telekom is a monopolistic bully. In evening hours, any service behind Cloudflare more or less stops working (for instance, before I cancelled my subscription, chess.com web assets were delivered with neck-breaking 5kB/s, which made loading a 20MB wasm for stockfish analysis no fun).. but there are absolutely no viable alternatives that aren’t also crappy: Vodafone -> same peering idiocy, Starlink -> king Elon). VPNs make things complicated, but are often the only alternative.
oytis 1/25/2026|
I am on o2 and didn't have any problems with availability that I would notice.
ainiriand 1/25/2026||
Their standard plan offerings could be already be considered throttling. I moved to Spain and I have 1gbit up/down.
shevy-java 1/25/2026||
The laws should be changed. Corporate overlords thinking they can milk citizens should have mandatory jail times - something reasonable like a full decade or so. That way their'll behaviour would quickly change too and they'd have to stop those "we can slow them down and they can not do anything about it" shenanigans.
usr1106 1/25/2026||
237 pages, wow...
heraldgeezer 1/25/2026||
??? Yes its called peering agreements
direwolf20 1/25/2026|
DT famously does not use them. They prefer to shut down their peers to make them become customers or fuck off, and by doing so, deliver crappy service to everyone and lose customers, except they have a monopoly so they don't lose as many customers as they should.
brynx97 1/25/2026||
We have many BGP workarounds to avoid interconnection points with some of our tier 1 providers and DT because as our providers tell us, discussions with DT to add capacity are a non-starter. We've been relatively stable through a tier 2 provider through Lumen to DT though... for now. Very similar to Cogent in some regions.
sampage64 1/25/2026||
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MORPHOICES 1/25/2026||
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tannhaeuser 1/25/2026||
Complaining about net neutrality in 2026 with yt videos. What a joke by pseudo-"hackers."
dewey 1/25/2026||
It's called being pragmatic, are you going to sponsor the bandwidth needed so it can be hosted on a sustainable indie server?
6r17 1/25/2026||
please. I don't understand how the fuck we still don't have p2p social networks and private sharing groups. The amount of possibilities to f* up any kind of control are massive - it's just that we end up writing some convoluted distributed mainframe when all people need is p2prss.
egeozcan 1/25/2026||
In life, you have to pick your battles.
tannhaeuser 1/25/2026|
Why are you leading your visitors to your channel on a monopolist site? To bring ad revenue? There's no need for video for your type of content in the first place.

I get it - a 2026 "hackers" campaign for binging yt. And in case you haven't noticed: appealing to the net neutrality debate of the last millenium is meaningless with just a bunch of monopolists left on the net profitting of vast public investments. The kind of thing traditionalist "hackers" in it for social recognition would be wasting their time on.

trinix912 1/25/2026|
Because they're betting on the video finding its way onto people's feed, thus raising awareness among non-techy people. Hard to do that with a random website.