[liberationtech] Petition Google over banning "Servers" on Google Fiber?
Moritz Bartl
moritz at torservers.net
Mon Aug 12 16:24:07 PDT 2013
Hi,
Thank you EFF for the well-written reminder:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/google-fiber-continues-awful-isp-tradition-banning-servers
[...] No ISP will come forward with a tighter definition of “server”
because they want to give themselves leeway to ban users and
technologies that they deem to be troublemakers. This strategy of making
incredibly broad, vague, and one-sided contracts is deeply problematic
and unfair towards users, and it's disheartening to see Google follow
this well-trodden path.
[...] Servers can be used in all sorts of clever ways. If the ban on
running servers were lifted, ordinary Internet users would be able to do
a multitude of interesting things with fewer barriers, spurring innovation.
We should petition Google to get rid of this. Does anyone know if EFF
planning such an action, or do you have contacts to organizational
networks to get it going properly?
--
Moritz Bartl
https://www.torservers.net/
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