If you ask an Internet service provider why they cap your usage at 50 or 100 GB per month, they will say something like:
"The cap is necessary to prevent heavy users from hogging all the bandwidth and degrading service for everyone else".
This is a flat-out lie. Here's why.

Network links, routers, switches, orbiting satellites and other hardware are sized - and priced - by their rated maximum speed (Mbit/s or Gbit/s). The cost of deploying and maintaining a network is almost entirely determined by its maximum speed and by the length and difficulty of the cable runs.

Most social networks implement some degree of censorship. It kind of has to be there - the alternative is for the worst dregs of humanity to fill your feeds with things you really don't want to know about. The content moderator job is one of the world's worst, but so far, nobody's found a better way.

The final set of "Patch Tuesday" security fixes for Windows XP will be released in six days.

In seven days, then, things might start getting ugly. If you still have an XP machine around, now is the time to deal with it.