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Meta, Deutsche Telekom Standoff In The EU Is Something To Keep An Eye On

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Net neutrality expert and Stanford Law Professor Barbara van Schewick warns in a blog post that the next step for DT is to specifically punish Meta by slowing all traffic over that third party transit route, making Meta-owned services work more poorly for potentially millions of EU residents:

“If DT does this, then millions of DT internet subscribers could have WhatsApp messages that won’t load, Instagram stories that stutter, and Facebook updates that don’t update.
Ultimately, the result of this showdown could determine whether the internet will pivot to a disastrous model where every app and site has to pay every ISP in the world.”
Published in: Press , Network Neutrality , Architecture and Public Policy