It does show, though, that we don't have to worry about it choking internet connectivity speed.
Dozens of countries deploy tactics to filter, block or choke off internet access for their citizens.
The tasks can be simple and annoying, like generating spam or aggressive and malicious, like choking off Internet exchange points, promoting political messages, or launching denial-of-service attacks.
The year 1971 was not ready for The Beguiled, but in the more enlightened 2017, with Trump in the White House and gynophobic alt-righters choking the internet, audiences seem ready for a film that sees womankind cathartically lashing out against the patriarchy.
"We believe Microsoft's ultimate goal is no less than establishing Microsoft-controlled choke points to Internet access," said Michael H. Morris, a senior vice president and general counsel for Sun.
European antitrust regulators met in Brussels yesterday to decide whether concessions submitted by Time Warner and its proposed partners, America Online and the EMI Music Group, were sufficient to allay European concerns that the planned deals would choke competition in the Internet distribution of music.
In August the FCC made front-page news when it ordered Comcast to stop choking off the Internet traffic created by users of BitTorrent, a software program popular with those eager to share, or steal, full-length movies and songs.
"It's going to be a new day in the Senate," said Mr. Wyden, who is the co-author with Representative Darrell Issa, Republican of California, of an alternative bill that seeks to choke off money flows to Internet pirates.
Jörg Wuttke, president of the chamber of commerce, said in the statement: "Excessive tightening of internet controls can choke business growth and stifle investment in technology and R&D, areas which are crucial for China's development..
Iran's government-run Telecommunications Infrastructure Co. enjoys centralized "choke point" control of all Internet traffic that's the envy of Chinese censors developing their own repressive "Great Firewall" against unimpeded political communication through cyberspace.
