Internet leaders Support Network Neutrality

Twenty-four CEOs and Internet company founders wrote in a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski saying, "We believe a process that results in common sense baseline [Network Neutrality] rules is critical to ensuring that the Internet remains a key engine of economic growth, innovation and global competitiveness." The letter is signed by Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter's Evan Williams, Digg founder Kevin Rose and a few CEOs who are veterans of the Net-Neutrality Wars: Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, Google's Eric Schmidt and Genachowski's former boss, Barry Diller of IAC/InteractiveCorp. Notably, a few non-Internet companies also signed the letter, including Stan Glasgow, president of Sony Electronics, and Charlie Ergen of satellite-TV provider EchoStar. "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," they wrote.