Now That It’s in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality (Wired)
Wired has a report on Google's response [PDF] to Douglas McClendon's complaint about "servers" being prohibited on Google Fiber. The response, which was ordered by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), states that Google Fiber can prohibit servers by noting, in part, that other providers' Terms of Service do likewise. But that flies in the face of earlier support for network neutrality as espoused by the company. "But, it turns out that Google's real net neutrality policy is that big corporate services like YouTube and Facebook shouldn't get throttled or banned by evil ISPs like Verizon, but it's perfectly fine for Google to control what devices citizens can use in their homes.

We, it seems, are supposed to be good consumers of cloud services, not hosting our own Freedom Boxes, media servers, small-scale commercial services or e-mail servers."