AND... I didn't say it was a bad thing.

But it is bad that you have two people leaching off some hypothetical other person's WiFi, neither of which is willing to pay for their own or help her. And you aren't "fixing BGP thingies" for free or if you are out of work.

Why isn't the mooching neighbor helping pay?

I'm ALL for the ISP's relieving bandwidth caps and not cutting service due to emergency related financial difficulties - for their subscribers.

Also, this sentiment will actually help nobody: if some isp decides to stop taking money for internet, they will do it without suggestion by ripe. That original post was virtue signaling, noise with no practical outcome.

On the other hang people who actually spend resources (for example those isp who continue to provide the internet to those who lost jobs) actually make change, and we are thankful to them.

If they won’t be paying for food, paying rent, paying for commute, paying for gas, the life of people who lost jobs due to corona will also be much easier. What’s so special about internet? Nothing.