Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street, SW
Washington D.C. 20554
May 7, 2014
Dear Chairman Wheeler and Commissioners Clyburn, Rosenworcel, Pai, and O’Reilly:
We write to express our support for a free and open internet. Over the past twenty years, American
innovators have created countless Internet-based applications, content offerings, and services that
are used around the world. These innovations have created enormous value for Internet users, fueled
economic growth, and made our Internet companies global leaders. The innovation we have seen to
date happened in a world without discrimination. An open Internet has also been a platform for free
speech and opportunity for billions of users.
The Commission’s long-standing commitment and actions undertaken to protect the open Internet
are a central reason why the Internet remains an engine of entrepreneurship and economic growth.
According to recent news reports, the Commission intends to propose rules that would enable phone
and cable Internet service providers to discriminate both technically and financially against Internet
companies and to impose new tolls on them. If these reports are correct, this represents a grave
threat to the Internet.
Instead of permitting individualized bargaining and discrimination, the Commission’s rules should
protect users and Internet companies on both fixed and mobile platforms against blocking, discrimination, and paid prioritization, and should make the market for Internet services more transparent.
The rules should provide certainty to all market participants and keep the costs of regulation low.
Such rules are essential for the future of the Internet. This Commission should take the necessary
steps to ensure that the Internet remains an open platform for speech and commerce so that America
continues to lead the world in technology markets.
Sincerely,
Amazon
Cogent
Dropbox
Ebay
Etsy
Facebook
Foursquare
Google
Kickstarter
Level 3

LinkedIn
Lyft
Microsoft
Netflix
Reddit
Tumblr
Twitter
Vonage Holdings Corp.
Yahoo! Inc.
Zynga

2600hz, Inc.

Contextly

inXile Entertainment

2redbeans

Coursera

Kaltura

4chan

CrowdTilt

LawGives

8x8, Inc.

Cube, Co

Leaflad

Addy

dasData

LendUp

AdviserDeck

Digg

Linearair

Agile Learning Labs

Distinc.tt

Linknovate

Airdroids

DuckDuckGo

littleBits

AirHelp

Duolingo

Lucipher.net

AnalyticsMD

DynaOptics

MDDHosting LLC

Appar

Embedly

Medium

Apportable

Fandor

Meetup

AppRebates

Floor64

Meteor Development Grouo

Apptology

Flowroute

Minds + Machines

Assembly Made, Inc.

Flurry

Misk

Authentise

Fonebook

MixRank

Automattic/WordPress.com

Funeral Innovations

MobileWorks

BadgerMapping

Gandi

Motionry

Bitnami

General Assembly

MozartMedical

BitTorrent

Github

Mozilla

Blu Zone

Grid

NOTCOT Inc

CBeyond

Handy Networks

O’Reilly Media

Chirply

Haystack.tv

OfficeNinjas

Clef

Heavybit Industries

Open Materials

CloudFare

HelloSign

Open Spectrum

Codecademy

HeyZap

OpenDNS

CodeCombat

iFixit

Opera Software ASA

CodeHS

iLost

PayTango

CodeScience

Imgur

Pocket/ReaditLater

Colourful Rebel

Instapaper

Poll Everywhere, Inc

Printrbot

UltiMachine

Publitas.com

Ustream

Rallyware

Vidmaker

Recrout

Volary Foundation

Redbubble

Voys Telecom

Rewheel/Digital Fuel Monitor

Waxy

Reylabs

Worldly

Rogue Labs

Xola

Shapeways

Yanomo

Sidecar
Sift Science
Simpolaris
SketchDeck
Skytree
SlidePay, Inc
Socialscope
Solidoodle
SpiderOak
SpoonRocket
Spotfront
StackExchange
StartX Stanford
Statwing
Tastemaker
The Next Web
Triggit
Tsumobi
Tucows
Twilio
UberConference