Charging a "basic fee" for the game, then blocking everything else unless you pay out of the ass for it. Games and microtransactions will soon be what the Internet pay 2 play model will look like.

And the worst part is that the vast majority of people will still buy the game and just have to be content with this complete joke of a business practice. Similarly, people will still buy the basic Internet package and be forced to pay out the ass for the rest or just have to be content with almost no Internet access. This will be even worse in the coming week when Net Neutrality is killed for good. Our future is grim indeed.

Oh BTW -- if this makes you mad(e), there are nationwide protests at Verizon stores this Thursday. Links in the comments.

I say we all make memes and upvote them to the front page to remind everyone of what's going on.

Edit: Do you people really think ISPs are doing anything to help us? They just want money, and if doing to our internet what they did to cable means money, they won't hesitate.

Yes, we finally have a smoking gun that we can use to save the Internet: Ajit Pai.

He's the gift that keeps on giving. Originally, I was planning on using his smugness against him throughout social media but now, he outdid me himself.

He fully confessed to being a shill at Verizon

YOU HAVE TWO OPTIONS

• 1. Get upset and angry. (That's a momentous waste, considering the gold mine we have here.)

• 2. Use this video to DESTROY AJIT PAI. (Just think how awesome it would that his yearlong ambitions crumbled due to his own stupidity, hubris, and ignorance.)

I still believe that calling our Senators and our Representative is the best option we have. But we need to go about it in a different way.

Our new goal needs to be pressuring Republican Senators and Republican Representatives to disassociate themselves from Ajit Pai for the sake of their careers.

(Yes, we know that they're corrupt but I'm willing to think that they will throw Ajit Pai down the river to save themselves.)

We just have to get the people in the Red States to talk about the video, get them to call their Senators and their Representatives and mention that Ajit Pai confessed to being a Verizon shill, and use them to pressure the Republican Senators and Republican Representatives to avoid Ajit Pai.

We can achieve that simply in 2 ways:

• 1. Share it online on social media. You can shorten the content of the video itself if you need to.

• 2. Talk to YouTubers and podcasters and pressure the news media into covering this story so that news of this spreads everywhere!

• 3. Get your friends in the Red States to see the video, understand what the video means to you, and immediately give them a way to express their dismay. (It's important that you get your friends to call BattleForTheNet.com as quickly as possible because they can easily direct their anger into an action. An action that will pressure the Republican Senators and Republican Representatives into getting as far away from Ajit as possible.)

We have leverage, guys. We can finally use this LEVERAGE to ROAST AJIT PAI ALIVE and all of his SUPPORTERS!

We just have to roast him in the court of opinion EVERYWHERE so that no one will support him.

Go watch that video with a smile because that video is our chance to undo all of his plans.

P.S. Be sure to share that with your Senators and your Representatives so that you pressure them into disassociating themselves from Ajit Pai.

EDIT: Aww, guys. Thanks for golding me. I feel so honored. This is my first Reddit gold. Although, I thought I would get it from sharing cute pictures of puppies - using a FBA dinner to shine a spotlight on the wrongdoings of the FCC Chairman to literally save the Internet. (This is a odd time for all of us.)