[twoodfin]

Reminds me of those absurd “selling web sites & apps like cable channels” graphics from the Net Neutrality wars.

This one apparently originated at Reddit, natch:

https://cordcutting.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/quink.png

[Forgeties79]

I don’t think it was all that absurd. IIRC Portugal was already flirting with a system like that at the time.

ISP’s wanted websites to pay them a fee in order to be accessible or at least not throttled, while also wanting customers to pay a fee to access sites/access them without being throttled. At least that’s how I remember it, it has been quite some time since I really went down that rabbit hole.