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From: tech10110/21/2009 4:28:23 AM
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Top tech firms back net-neutrality rules

Letter comes as FCC prepares to vote

By Cecilia Kang

Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

A number of Silicon Valley titans and early technologists of the Web on Monday urged the Federal Communications Commission to move forward with new rules to prevent Internet providers from favoring one application over another.

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In advance of Thursday's meeting, 24 executives of Internet content and telecom service companies, including Google, XO Communications, Twitter and Facebook, said in a letter that without a strong anti-discrimination policy, companies like theirs may not get a fair shot on the Internet because carriers could decide to block them from ever reaching consumers.

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