I think this is the most hypocritical position Google can take.
In terms of "knowing better" is there any company that would be in a better position to understand the nature of servers and infrastructure?
The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
I would have no problem if they put bandwidth caps, as long as they were articulated. I can totally understand if someone is jamming petabytes, but those are gigabit connections. What constitutes abuse?
Is it possible that Google jumped into the ISP world without fully understanding the magnitude of the problem? I think of ISPs as another fractal problem, like email or calendars. From 100,000 feet away, it looks simple, but the details of running very large networks are surprisingly complex.
To be clear, my position is that calling a service unlimited and then throttling using intentionally obfuscating criteria is unconscionable. If you're going to throttle me, let me know what the terms are. Pretending a "server" is automatically a giant mainframe like device is the kind of ignorance I expect from the DOD not Google.
In terms of "knowing better" is there any company that would be in a better position to understand the nature of servers and infrastructure?
The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
I would have no problem if they put bandwidth caps, as long as they were articulated. I can totally understand if someone is jamming petabytes, but those are gigabit connections. What constitutes abuse?
Is it possible that Google jumped into the ISP world without fully understanding the magnitude of the problem? I think of ISPs as another fractal problem, like email or calendars. From 100,000 feet away, it looks simple, but the details of running very large networks are surprisingly complex.
To be clear, my position is that calling a service unlimited and then throttling using intentionally obfuscating criteria is unconscionable. If you're going to throttle me, let me know what the terms are. Pretending a "server" is automatically a giant mainframe like device is the kind of ignorance I expect from the DOD not Google.