Online Video Creators Seek FCC Chair Who Will Deal With Data Caps

In a letter to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Ranking Member John Thune (R-SD), a couple dozen independent online video providers under the umbrella of dontcapthat.org, said that "it is critical that the next chair of the Federal Communications Commission recognize the threat that data caps pose to the future growth of the Internet." They argue that caps allow pay-TV providers to favor their own online offerings, thwarting a movement toward independent distribution that the Internet facilitates. Among the signatories to the letter were Dane Boedigheimer, Annoying Orange INC; Erik Martin, reddit, and Amber J. Lawson, former head of AOL Video.