Internet, Social Media Leaders Push for Net Neutrality
Leaders at some of the world’s largest Internet companies are banding together to lobby in favor of net neutrality.
The group, which includes Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter co-founder Evan Williams (full list of signatories below), sent a letter dated Monday to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski urging the FCC to “begin a process to adopt rules that preserve an open Internet.”
Proponents of net neutrality argue that new regulations are necessary to prevent broadband providers from selectively blocking or slowing the delivery of Web content and applications to users.
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