Extremely funny (and true. It's always funnier when it's true). I like the way you subtly brought Trump supporters into the argument. I would've "liked" or "voted" for you post, but Slashdot is too mind boggling primitive for that. I'm going back to Reddit now... Catch you later.

I'm a Slashdot user with 'Excellent' Karma, but I never see an option for rating a submission or comments. So Slashdot is a broadcast only system where some secret cabal of editors gets to rate things. I go to Reddit if I want to participate. Too bad Slashdot doesn't have a way of letting users come to consensus on questions like, "do you like this new feature on Slashdot". But I bet they're using the newest tech fashions in CSS and Javascript for the new beta web pages. Shiny!

Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping it sounds like "shaping" is throttling based on packet type that kicks in when bit rates get to high.