Google, Facebook, Amazon and eBay join to create powerful pro-Internet lobbying group

[garyopa]

Will be called 'The Internet Association'.



The Internet Association will launch next September and will operate out of Washington, handling political and regulatory issues.

That's right, Google, Amazon, Facebook and eBay have all teamed up to form the Internet Association, a powerful lobbying group that describes itself as "the unified voice of the Internet economy, representing the interests of America's leading Internet companies and their global community of users."

The group would "educate" lawmakers about the internet, said new president Michael Beckerman.

Mr Beckerman is a former adviser to the chairman of the House of Representatives Energy And Commerce Committee.

"We want to educate [lawmakers] about the impact of the internet in their congressional districts," he said.

The full list of companies joining the group and the issues they would focus on would be announced in September, he added.

Beckerman added: "...the Internet's decentralized and open model is what has enabled its unprecedented growth and innovation. We must guard against misguided attempts to handcuff this incredible source of job creation, freedom and creativity."�

The issues these net firms will face include privacy legislation, online sales tax reforms, cybersecurity and proposed anti-piracy and copyright laws.

So, let's hope this puts an end to the recent SOPA, ACTA and all the other nonsense proposed bills that have showed up this year, once and for all!

NEWS SOURCE #1: Technology #18996319 (via) BBC News
NEWS SOURCE #2: Google Facebook Amazon eBay form new Washington lobbying group (via) WashingtonPost

Our thanks to 'Gauss' for this news item!

[billysastard]

will be nice to have a pro consumer lobby group to counter the criminal cartels in Washington, its just a pity that the corrupt american lawmakers cant act on their own in defense of their electors

[simian raticus]

Mafia + thugs = pathology and fast death in middle age!

[simian raticus]

All bad characters are dead or sitting in the prisons! Show Your true faces of life und death and pathology! Old never eding war; judges vs lawbreaker! No winners in this competition! This is pure sport for the GELD! Small kids growth so fast and have two paths of choice: crime or law!