Netflix Is Urged To Slow Down Streaming So You Know...The Entire Internet Doesn't Break

London (CNN Business)The European Union is urging Netflix and other streaming platforms to stop showing video in high definition to prevent the internet from breaking under the strain of unprecedented usage due to the coronavirus pandemic.

With so many countries on forced lockdowns to fight the spread of the virus, hundreds of millions working from home and even more children out of school, EU officials are concerned about the huge strain on internet bandwidth.

European Commissioner Thierry Breton, who is responsible for the EU internal market covering more than 450 million people, tweeted Wednesday evening that he had spoken with Netflix (NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings. Breton called on people and companies to "#SwitchtoStandard definition when HD is not necessary" in order to secure internet access for all.

This is it. This is truly the end. You take away sports...we persist. You take away bars and socializing...we grit our teeth and tighten our belt. You take away toilet paper and we just hop in the shower after every poop and our butts have never been cleaner. You take away the internet and...

It will be CHAOS in these streets. Imagine...IMAGINE trying to watch a movie and having to wait like 6+ minutes for it. That six minutes is everything. You've been locked up with a significant other perhaps. Normally the movie would start and you wouldn't have to talk. Now, anything could happen. You could get in a fight that ends the relationship or worse someone could get pregnant. Then when it finally loads it looks like it was filmed in 1993 and makes you think you need lasik. This is no way to live. This is how the coronavirus really kills us...it makes us kill each other. 

The only good part about this...all those little Gen Z fucks down at Spring Break just doing things like having fun and drinking and talking to people in person...well they are going to come home after a year of calling me a boomer for having cable instead of streaming my tv through the internet, well they're going to be the first ones effected. They'll just have to sit there and wait as their shit buffers and loads and gliches while I am still quarantined watching all my shows on-demand through comcast which is still the king.