[GRLUG] NOT LINUX

[Topher]

On 09/10/2012 01:39 PM, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
> On Mon Sep 10 2012 11:43:47 AM EDT, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>> September 13. For $70 per month, residents can get Gigabit Internet, and
>> for $120 per month, they can get Gigabit Internet service plus TV.
>> There's even a "free" Internet tier with 5Mbps down and 1Mbps up. The
>> free tier requires a one-time construction fee of $300 or 12 monthly
>> payments of $25, but Google guarantees the free service for seven years.
>> **
>>
>> About the same price the rest of
>> us pay for about 3% of that bandwidth.
>>
>> I wonder where Google with go with
>> this next?   i.e., if that $70 represents
>> a true service price, I'd think the door
>> would be open to many other cities,
>> on the way to creating Google Net.
>>
>> Even that "free" service works out to
>> about $45 a year, or less if Google
>> extends it.
> Google's primary business is selling ads.  To sell ads more effectively they try to know as much about you as possible.  Would you really want them being able to see *all* of you data traffic?  This is a real conflict of interest (if you believe in the principles of net-neutrality).

Isn't this what Comcast and everyone else do already?  is it worse?