Web Companies See ‘Grave Threat’ in FCC Internet Fast-Lane Plan
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Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc. and more than 100 other software, social-media and technology companies said they oppose a U.S. proposal to let Internet-service providers charge them extra for faster routes to Web users.
The rules may let telephone-service and cable providers “discriminate both technically and financially” and would be “a grave threat to the Internet,” the companies said yesterday in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission. Other signers included Facebook Inc., Netflix Inc. and Microsoft Corp.