'Net Neutrality' Group Missing Key Backers

'NET NEUTRALITY' GROUP MISSING KEY BACKERS
[SOURCE: Technology Daily 5/24, AUTHOR: David Hatch]
The Open Internet Coalition officially launched Thursday to urge lawmakers and regulators to mandate a "neutral" Internet that treats all Web-based players as equals. The 54 members include the telecommunications industry association Comptel, which represents several competitors to dominant high-speed Internet providers, as well as Earthlink, eBay, Google, Public Knowledge and YouTube, which is owned by Google. But Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo, all members in 2006 of the group's predecessor, the It's Our Net Coalition, have not joined the new entity. It's Our Net reportedly had 172 participants, but its successor has less than a third of that, despite a broader agenda that includes supporting widespread deployment of broadband service.
http://www.njtelecomupdate.com/2007/05/net_neutrality_group_missing_k.ht...

* Conservative group blasts net neutrality
[SOURCE: Lasar's Letter on the FCC, AUTHOR: Matthew Lasar]
The American Conservative Union (ACU) has filed a statement with the Federal Communications Commission calling net neutrality "a 'solution' to a non-existent problem "
http://www.lasarletter.net/drupal/node/401

* Is The Open Internet Coalition About A Real Democratic Net­or One Safe for Data Collection and Interactive Advertising?
http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=287