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It is a major issue. People need to be able to play and tinker. As a child/teenager I didn't have money to pay for servers online but I still wanted to mess with that stuff.

My ISP didn't enforce the no-servers rule so I was able to run home servers but you shouldn't have rules that violate net neutrality that you "choose" when to enforce. People need to be able to tinker and figure things out without artificial restrictions that exist purely so that they can claim to not have bandwidth caps. It's borderline false advertisement and a violation of net neutrality.



This doesnt stop you from tinkering or anything of the like. Its meant to stop a business trying to piggy back on a residential service. Just feed their FAQ

https://fiber.google.com/help/ : Can I run a server from my home?

  Our Terms of Service prohibit running a server. However,
  use of applications such as multi-player gaming,
  video-conferencing, home security and others which may
  include server capabilities but are being used for legal
  and non-commercial purposes are acceptable and encouraged.


It sorta allows you to kinda tinker as long as Google doesn't decide that it's bad. Until they do.


You expect people to read?


Silly me.




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