The Internet Association (IA) is a United States industry trade group based in Washington, D.C., which represents internet companies. It was founded in 2012 by several companies, including Google, Amazon, eBay, and Facebook, and is headed by the president and CEO Michael Beckerman.
IA lobbies Congress, the courts, foreign governments, federal and state agencies, and state and local governments on a range of regulatory issues. The group also publishes economic research on the internet economy.
Group members have included companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, Etsy, Expedia, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Netflix and PayPal, among others.
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History
On July 25, 2012, news outlets reported that several internet companies, including Google, Amazon, eBay and Facebook were founding a new lobbying group. Michael Beckerman was appointed President and CEO of the new Internet Association, set to publicly launch in September 19 of that year.
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Advocacy
The Internet Association is a lobbying group, and reported $1.5 million in political lobbying in the year 2014.
The association contested the FCC's initial net neutrality proposal in July 2014, advocating stronger neutrality rules. It later praised the newer rules that surfaced in early 2015. IA also advocated for net neutrality rules to apply equally to wireless and wired internet connections, and applauded the development of net neutrality legislation by the Republican Party in the US Congress, which was developed as an alternative to the FCC reclassification proposal.
The association supported the 2015 Open Internet Order, lobbying for it in the press, Congress and the courts. It opposed FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Restoring Internet Freedom Order.
The association advocates patent reform legislation, to make it more difficult for patent trolls to sue for patent damages.
In 2015, Internet Association president and CEO Michael Beckerman criticized the Seattle authorities for allowing transportation network company drivers to form unions, claiming that it would "undermine the ability of for-hire and ride-sharing companies to operate".
It participated in the "Day of Action to Save the Internet" during the summer of 2017. It created a micro-site and video directing Americans to send comments to the FCC opposing the Restoring Internet Freedom Order, and stated plans to participate in lawsuits to overturn the Order as an intervenor.
Also in 2017, the Internet Association opposed California AB 375, a data privacy bill that would require Internet service providers to obtain customers' permission to collect and sell their browsing history. The organization signed a letter that claimed that the proposal would "lead to recurring pop-ops to consumers that would be desensitizing" and "prevent Internet providers from using information they have long relied upon to prevent cybersecurity attacks and improve their service".
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