Welcome to Europe, where we get 1gbps fiber at reasonable prices. Here in Denmark it is available at ~$30/month for example. Because the same fiber infrastructure is accessible by many different ISPs to offer to consumers.

Please don’t give them ideas.

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Are there any online collectives that work together to stop this tomfoolery?

Same as it has been for the last 100 years: Vote with your money. If you don’t like the product/service, don’t buy it. Stop thinking you can force them to change their offering.

I’ve seen this quote repeated over and over these past few weeks, while noone brothers to actually explain what it means and why. This article is no different unfortunately.

Incorrect. https://gdpr.eu/eu-gdpr-personal-data/ states IP addresses are personal data.