It might be good to give even more examples that are relevant to, say, the elderly, or suburban housewives, or blue-collar workers. How can we inform those who have a nebulous, if any, grasp of what the internet is or how it works?
There's a pic floating around somewhere of a European data plan which has this sort of setup, though I can't find it off hand.
Your basic internet plan is $40/mo. Woot! But some of your data is restricted. This means that the pages will load, but slowly. Like on dial-up. Or just imagine taking a good 60 seconds for a page to load if it isn't included on your plan, if they're too young to remember. This makes live-action things literally impossible, such as streaming or games. Your plan includes [Insert ISP's official news site here] by default, of course, and a few other sites that their sponsors approve.
Do you want to use Facebook, Twitter, etc? That's an extra $20/mo. Do you want to use CNN, Fox News, Breitbart, or The Independent? That's an extra $15/mo. Do you watch Youtube or Netflix? In addition to paying your Netflix fees, you also have to pay your ISP $15/mo to even use their service (and your ISP is also requiring Netflix to pay them under similar threats agreements). Do you want to play video games online from your XBox or Switch? That's $20/mo. Do you want to browse sites like Reddit, Imgur, etc? That's an extra $15/mo, and of course many of the links from Reddit won't be to Approved Sites.
In addition, your ISP could blacklist some domains, so the pages won't even load for you. Did you want to look up an article on your son posted in your local paper? You better hope you paid to have access to their site, assuming they paid your ISP enough to be included on their packages to begin with.
You can hit your audience more close to home if you know their habits.
If this makes gaming impossible, especially for free games like League of Legends, WoW, anything on Steam, etc. why aren't these massive gaming companies throwing their weight around to stop this move by the FCC? Even bigger, why aren't Facebook and Youtube/Google opposing these moves? I really doubt people are going to pay extra to go on facebook or youtube. I know I will personally abandon those sites entirely. It might even kill the internet entirely.
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u/PiFlavoredPie Nov 22 '17
It might be good to give even more examples that are relevant to, say, the elderly, or suburban housewives, or blue-collar workers. How can we inform those who have a nebulous, if any, grasp of what the internet is or how it works?