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It's the overly vague handwaviness and arbitrary enforcement that people are upset about.

This is like the all-you-can-eat buffet that changes the rules when a football team shows up.




Of course, but in other instances, the tech community gets upset at usage-based billing.

We want ISPs to stop advertising non-unlimited service as "unlimited". But the tech community seems to only accept the solution wherein unlimited service is provided, ignoring the other (IMO much better) solution wherein non-unlimited service is advertised as non-unlimited, and the non-unlimitedness is provided in a sane manner with usage-based billing rather than vague rules.

It's like the all-you-can-eat buffet that changes the rules when a football team shows up, but also everybody gets upset any time the buffet thinks about changing to an a la carte model.




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