Amazon opposes Genachowski's rules

Did public interest organizations mischaracterize Amazon's stance on the current network neutrality proposal? Well, perhaps not after all.

Amazon is walking a (that is, almost invisible) rhetorical line with respect to this proceeding. Amazon supports the framework the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is using for its proposal; however, it opposes the rules as they are currently written. Amazon's Paul Misener says: "Although we support the chairman’s 'proposed policy framework' — in other words, the division between broadband Internet access service ('BBIAS') on one hand and specialized services on the other — Amazon does not support the currently proposed rules. As I said in my letter, Amazon believes that specialized services 'should not harm the delivery of content via BBIAS, nor impede the growth of BBIAS, nor be offered on unequal terms' (that is, bits are bits). Until the rules are modified to meet these criteria, Amazon does not support the proposal."