Comment by Telaneo

> Isn’t “paying for what you use” the ultimate expression of personal responsibility, though?

The value of bandwidth is negligible until you start to work with 100s of TBs. Bandwidth is basically free on a consumer scale. It's the infrastructure you're paying for, but once purchased, it has minimal upkeep compared to how much use you get out of it. It'd be one thing if bandwidth were subsidised; then we could raise pricing up to where you're actually paying for what you use. We're already at that point though. Raising pricing further, either directly or through rationing, is just rent-seeking.

Responsibility is not inherently good. Imposed responsibility for no good reason is in fact bad.