Open Internet backed by big tech
Posted by Jacque on October 19th, 2009
24 CEOs and founders representing the world’s leading Internet and technology companies — including Facebook, Sony, Amazon, eBay, Twitter, and Google — threw their support behind the effort to protect an open Internet in a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski today.
Google Public Policy blog notes that “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.”
The open Internet has been a platform for innovation, economic growth and free expression — “an environment where consumers, not broadband providers, choose winners and losers.”
Support for “net neutrality” by tech companies was expressed at an appropriate time since this is the beginning of Open Access Week, “a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. It encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society.”
