[throwaway90999]

"with goals beyond pure financial gains and rock-bottom self-interest."

This doesn't paint an accurate picture. Google isn't deploying Fiber out of any notion of selflessness. This is a competitive play, and a very good one at that.

You say selfless ideals, I say this is exactly how "the market" and "competition" are commonly understood to function -- in the absence of corruption, regulatory capture and state granted monopolies.

[Florin_Andrei]

> This is a competitive play, and a very good one at that.

Absolutely it is, yes. You're just not looking beyond that level.

[oldmanjay]

And you're ascribing purity of motivation based on nothing more than apparent religious belief in your savior Larry. Hardly a more convincing argument.

[r_edwards]

but I would argue a bigger hedge against net neutrality -> not banking on defeating what increasingly looks like regulatory capture.