[hymanroth]

If you use a service without charge which entails a non-zero cost to produce and supply it, then I'm afraid somebody, somewhere is subsiding it. So that's my first abuse of language sorted.

As to the price of premium services being 'artificially high' - as I make clear in the post - this refers to paying for a benefit that is necessarily incremental (if it wasn't, nobody would use the free service). The price of that benefit is generally excessive when compared to what can be had for nothing.

You many not agree with those words, but I don't think they, too, represent an abuse of language.