Meh. I’m not really trying to defend Google here, I think both sides are shitty in this situation. Again, my initial point was merely that this is a tragedy of the commons issue, and the reason we no longer have (nearly) unlimited plans is because some users decided to knowingly push the limits and abuse it to the extent that the plans had to change.
papertowels@lemmy.one 9 months ago
I would say that it sounds like the reason is that Google advertised it as something it wasn’t - unlimited.
If they said “nearly unlimited” and "we’ll start throttling your upload speed after x TB, they very much could’ve kept this going.
My understanding of tragedy of the commons is much more applicable to scenarios that aren’t in a single parties control. Things like pollution, global warming, etc.
Things like “you said it was unlimited, but didn’t account for folks taking you up on that offer” is just false/misleading advertising.