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Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by martin_a on Friday March 20, 2020 @03:50AM (#22635816)
That is because ISPs in Europe are a piece of shit, maximizing profits of their users while minimizing investments in the infrastructure.

This is not about Corona, this is not about "extraordinary situations", this is about European online infrastructure being garbage and now that it's getting really used for once, everything starts to crumble.

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Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by berkes on Saturday March 21, 2020 @02:52PM (#22648910)
Europe has very different regions. Some countries have the best infrastructure, with nearly everyone on glassfiber, while others only have cripled ASDL.

You really cannot make a statement like 'Europe has a poor internet infrastructure', without (i) comparing it to somwhere else and (ii) highlighting the differences in regions.

I mean, I'm pretty confident that everyone in Europe has better internet than everyone in Cuba or Zimbabwe.

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