By prohibiting customers from running servers on their home broadband connections, Google is violating the very Open Internet protections it used to champion.

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    Remember when Google vehemently defended net neutrality? Well, those days are over.

    Now that the net giant is getting into the broadband game for itself -- with its Internet service Google Fiber -- the company has completely abandoned its commitment to neutrality, instead joining other ISPs (AT&T, Comcast, Verizon) in choosing profits over customer freedom.

    As Wired.com points out, Google's "legally binding Terms of Service outlaw Google Fiber customers from running their own mail server, using a remotely accessible media server, SSHing into a home computer from work to retrieve files, running a Minecraft server for friends to share, using a Nest thermometer, using a nanny camera to watch over a childcare provider or using a Raspberry Pi to host a WordPress blog."

    Sign to the right to call on the FCC to take on Google and protect Net Neutrality.

    Google's rules even outlaw devices like the Free Network Foundation's open source "Freedom Box," which would allow dissidents around the world to surf the net safely and anonymously -- exactly the kind of thing network neutrality was designed to protect.

    What's worse, Google is trying to undermine the protections they once championed by arguing that banning home servers is "fully consistent with the Open Internet Order and Rules."  But the net neutrality rules are clear and simple: "Fixed broadband providers may not block lawful content, applications, services or non-harmful devices." 

    Again from Wired: "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."

    Google wants to have its cake and eat it too: present itself as a defender of the open internet while limiting customer freedoms to maximize its profits -- abiding by the rules only when it serves their bottom line.

    Let's put a stop to Google's hypocrisy. Sign to the right to call on the FCC to go after Google.

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