More than two dozen Internet advocacy groups urged Democrats and...
More than two dozen Internet advocacy groups urged Democrats and Republicans to adopt party platforms that support a free and open Internet, in a letter (http://xrl.us/bnnd39) sent Monday to each party. The groups urged political leaders to “reject efforts to…
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censor the Internet and engage in unwarranted surveillance of its users” by incorporating specific language into their platforms that says each party “stands for a free and open Internet, unfettered by censorship and undue violations of privacy.” Such a statement is “long overdue,” the letter said, as “numerous entities, special interests, and governments routinely challenge the open nature of the Internet, and threaten its very essence.” Groups who signed the letter include: Mozilla, the Center for Democracy and Technology, Demand Progress, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Free Press Action Fund, and the Internet Archive.