[governance] A letter of support for "net neutrality"

[Yehuda Katz]

A letter of support for "net neutrality"
To: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski 

Doc.Ref.: PDF

http://assets.bizjournals.com/cms_media/pdf/NN%20Letter%20of%20Support%20to%20Chairman%20Genachowski%20final%201019.pdf?site=techflash.com

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We write to express our support for your announcement that the Federal
Communications Commission will begin a process to adopt rules that preserve an
open Internet. We believe a process that results in common sense baseline rules
is critical to ensuring that the Internet remains a key engine of economic
growth, innovation, and global competitiveness.

For most of the Internet’s history, FCC rules have ensured that consumers
have been able to choose the content and services they want over their Internet
connections. Entrepreneurs, technologists, and venture capitalists have
previously been able to develop new online products and services with the
guarantee of neutral, nondiscriminatory access by users, which has fueled an
unprecedented era of economic growth and creativity. Existing businesses have
been able to leverage the power of the Internet to develop innovative product
lines, reach new consumers, and create new ways of doing business.

An open Internet fuels a competitive and efficient marketplace, where consumers
make the ultimate choices about which products succeed and which fail. This
allows businesses of all sizes, from the smallest startup to larger
corporations, to compete, yielding maximum economic growth and opportunity.

America’s leadership in the technology space has been due, in large part, to
the open Internet. We applaud your leadership in initiating a process to
develop rules to ensure that the qualities that have made the Internet so
successful are protected.

Signed ...

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