Google's core business is advertising. Google likes to do stuff with the data that passes through its systems. Google has explicitly and pro-actively taken sides in fight against copyright violations instead of remaining a neutral party.
And they've been less than steadfast on Net Neutrality, which is a big red flag for a company that wants to be an ISP.
This is not about Google being "evil", but I do not want a company with that mindset and those interests to be my ISP. It's going to be very tough, if not impossible to separate those.
I know this is already common practice in the US, with many of the major (cable) ISP's being part of companies that having a direct stake in copyright exploitation, advertising etcetera.
So ask yourself: how's that working out for you so far? Would Google really be any better?
Aside from say, Sonic.net, I'd be hard pressed to find a less "evil" company (in terms of conflict of interest - most other major ISPs tend to be wireless carriers or in bed with the entertainment industry or both).
Google may not have it's interests aligned with us end users, but they're a nice contrast to the remainder, and might be forced to play a countering role on the copyright front to differentiate.
Google's core business is doing cool stuff with technology. While they often need to resort to advertising to monetize many of their cool products (see: search. What else could they do? The bar had already been set and a for-pay search vendor would be DOA), it does you no good to try to frame everything in the advertising picture.
Amazon's core business is selling books. It would be sophistry to argue that AWS is really a mechanism to try to get you to buy books.
And they've been less than steadfast on Net Neutrality, which is a big red flag for a company that wants to be an ISP.
This is not about Google being "evil", but I do not want a company with that mindset and those interests to be my ISP. It's going to be very tough, if not impossible to separate those.
I know this is already common practice in the US, with many of the major (cable) ISP's being part of companies that having a direct stake in copyright exploitation, advertising etcetera.
So ask yourself: how's that working out for you so far? Would Google really be any better?