Now an ISP, Google not so hot on net neutrality

Framing this under Net Neutrality stinks of lack of domain specific knowledge. This sort of policy has nothing to do with it. Really when you’re talking about Net Neutrality you’re talking about a customer accessing a website or service on the Internet, not that customer using their connection for anything they damn well please (e.g., connecting a 42U rack of servers and selling VPSes.) You will find this sort of policy on most every residential connection available. These are policies that are oft left unpoliced, but are there to protect the ISP in the case of extreme abuse, giving them the ability to terminate that customer.

This is Good For Everyone. Suggested alternatives to a policy like this, like having bandwidth limitations or such hurts everybody. Google isn’t going to shut down your connection because you’re running PC Anywhere. I’m sure they would shut down your connection finding out you’re running an IRCd that’s being DDoSed by a bunch of script kiddies. Or you’re running an FTP site for distributing warez. Or SSH shells being used to run nmap against networks. Stuff like that. This is SOP for any ISP, so give me a break.

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