Twitter, Facebook Founders Chime in on Net Neutrality

Posted 10/19/2009 at 5:27am | by Paul Lilly

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There's been a lot of talk of net neutrality as of late, mainly because the FCC plans to release details of its proposed net neutrality rules this Thursday. Last week the FCC was bombarded with letters frkom net-neutrality opponents urging new FCC chairman Julius Genachowski to take a cautious approach toward the new rules, but not everyone feels this way. The FCC also received another letter, this one in support of net neutrality, signed by several prominent Internet company founders.

"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," the group wrote. "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 start-up to larger corporations, to compete, yielding maximum economic growth and opportunity."

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter's Evan Williams added their signature to the letter, as did Digg founder Kevin Rose. So did Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, Google's Eric Schmidt, and a bunch of other recognizable names included among the 24 CEOs and Internet company founders.

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