Sen Markey Gets Some Massachusetts Tech Support for Internet Fight

Sen Ed Markey (D-MA) said Massachusetts tech leaders, including Microsoft, were pledging to join his fight to protect network neutrality. Sen Markey's definition of that is to prevent Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai from reversing his predecessor's reclassification of Internet service providers as Title II common carriers under the Open Internet order.

Sen Markey's office said April 21 he had met with the following, who had joined his defense of net neutrality: Mark Kidd, senior VP of Iron Mountain; Jody Rose, executive director of New England Venture Capital Association; Colin Angle, CEO of iRobot; Mohamad Ali, CEO of Carbonite; Steve Kaufer, CEO of TripAdvisor; Enrique Colbert, general counsel of Wayfair; Cathy Wissink, director of technology and civic engagement, Microsoft New England.