You are correct indeed, That is one information I did not follow up.
I stand corrected

if you take chocolate in US (made with 20% cocoa), or taco bell’s beef (35%) , or sofa leather (just bonded leather) or interior stones (which are man made) or selling diamonds (carbone) but it is zirconia (ZrO2) ....

but that is happening, it is called tollfree numbers.
The pizzeria pays the phone company for the communications. so the end users do not pay , or do not use their minutes.
Other pizzerias, do not pay for the tollfree number, and you, as the customer will pay.
It exists, it is prevalent, it helps customers (paying less…

ok,
I have a shop.
I get commercial companies to pay for ads display in my store.
so it allows me to offer free coffee to my customer, using that money, and getting the edge over the shop next door.
so just said, that because the shop next door might close, for lack of extra services (which cost me, and someone has to…

yes, and that is exactly why it is better to allow it.
at the end, and only if used properly, the customer wins.

so legally selling snake oil, at a high price, and they are not sued?

here is how: look at the 2nd in the list.
Merriam webster:

then by your definition, NSA / CIA have done treason, as they betrayed the constitution they took an oath to defend.

why is US everywhere compared to single countries in Europe?

blah blah blah,

then first, let them , I care more about being informed for things like this, then after that I try to deal with political agendas.

I disagree with his reasons, while I do understand that free open internet is not viable.
let’s first try to provide free access to a subset of internet, which is not about watching videos, or listening to music and stuff like that, which would put a strain on the network, explode the costs, make it non viable, and not…

Cheaper for the consumer on the bill to pay.
Include the loss of taxes from the for profit, and that loss will have to be offset by higher taxes.
Include the 10s or 100s of thousand losing their jobs in the for profit industry, and account for unemployment benefits, pay in your taxes.

You should read the contract you sign,
You pay Y for up to X speed.
And there is a fair use close because it is shared, and that amount to a cap monthly. It is in your contract.
Did you read the details of what you agreed to?

I like your Option 2 (even though it is a paywall, which is also fought by the net neutrality groups.

well, I used to think like you,

no you don’t.
you pay your ISP for a line that goes to the first exchange, where all the lines to the exchange are sharing one bigger line.
the reason you do not pay > $200 a month for 1.5 MB/s stable. for an E1 connection to the backbone.

that is what I am saying.

zero rating, allowing facebook to be categorized as such????
Do you know what zero rating is?
Somone has to pay for the transport infrastructure (which costs a lot), and when you pay 50$ for internet, you do not get a T1 connection to the backbone. that would have cost you a lot more.
so when video starts using your…

wait, no one yet?