Symmetric gigabit is great for DDoS botnet operators.

The aggregate bandwidth capacity of these networks exceeds 100 Tbps — more than most national internet backbones can absorb. And symmetric gigabit fiber rollouts keep making the math worse: average upstream bandwidth per compromised endpoint increased 75% year-over-year in North America.

I got curious about “parataxites”, but was unable to find anything relevant by that name. I think he meant to write:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites