I feel like the EFF is arguing semantics and hasn&#x27;t really made a valid argument about what&#x27;s wrong with T-Mobile&#x27;s approach.  Yes T-Mobile is throttling and yes they&#x27;re trying to relabel what they&#x27;re doing to avoid all of the negative connotations that the term &quot;throttling&quot; brings wit it, but what are they doing that&#x27;s harmful to the customer?  I think it ultimately comes down to the fact that T-Mobile made it an opt-out feature instead of an opt-in one.<p>The reality is that wireless bandwidth is constrained and sustained transfers at high rates degrade the overall experience of everyone using a particular cellular tower. T-Mobile, being particularly bandwidth constrained, is attempting to mitigate this issue.  They&#x27;re doing it by offering a service where if you allow your bandwidth for certain content types to be be throttled, then the bandwidth you use for certain qualifying services won&#x27;t count against your data cap.  They&#x27;re offering a carrot, not threatening with a stick.<p>Yes it&#x27;s opt-out, but that was probably done intentionally because most folks won&#x27;t notice the degradation or won&#x27;t care, <i>AND</i>, more importantly, most people wouldn&#x27;t bother to enable it if it were opt-in.  If T-Mobile made it opt-in then their adoption rate would be lower so by making opt-out they&#x27;re getting the greatest benefit.<p>I just looked at my account and the toggle to turn Binge On off is easily accessible in my user profile.  It&#x27;s not a buried feature anywhere.  The only possible gripe I could see is that the setting is granular and per-line making it marginally harder to disable, but that&#x27;s also a benefit. I have multiple lines on my account but only 1 has unlimited data, so the ability to disable it for just that one line is nice and allows me to have my cake and eat it too.