No surprises there. Unlike Ukraine, Belarus seems ready to bend over, so all Putin needs to do is make Lukashenko wealthy.

So ISPs are charging an arm and a leg, but they’re saying others should pay? I’d love to be in a business where someone else pays for my business expenses and I keep the revenue.

Yeah as everyone else said, nothing in the Internet is truly private.

That said, I believe the fediverse is better for preventing use of your data because no one server/instance has all the data. This makes it harder to track and use your data across servers/instances.

FYI, global times is a well known CCP mouthpiece.