Tech Giants Band Together In Support of ‘Net Neutrality’
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Amazon.com, Google and more than 100 other software, social-media and technology companies said they oppose a U.S. proposal to let Internet-service providers charge them extra for faster routes to web users.
The rules may let telephone-service and cable providers “discriminate both technically and financially” and would be “a grave threat to the Internet,” the companies said yesterday in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission. Other signers included Facebook, Netflix and Microsoft Corp.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has asked the agency to vote May 15 on whether to begin writing rules to let Internet-service providers such as AT&T and Comcast negotiate deals with content makers like Google for quicker and more reliable delivery of video and other fare. Wheeler said last month the idea doesn’t abandon the FCC’s Internet fairness policy, commonly known as “net neutrality.”
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