Perhaps the warning system will work not because of fear of having slow Internet for a couple of days but because of the sensation of surveillance that the system will create.
The nine-year-old became an internet sensation after Argyll and Bute Council banned her from posting photos of her school meals on her NeverSeconds blog.
An American student became an internet sensation earlier this month when he was photographed sitting on the pavement talking with an elderly beggar in Nanjing.
Even ordinary users will flock to a mouse that snaps onto an Internet hyperlink and lets them feel a window stretch (the sensation you get when resizing a window on your desktop).