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The Internet Association (IA) was an American lobbying group based in Washington, D.C., which represented companies involved in the Internet.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 41 relations: Airbnb, Ajit Pai, Amazon (company), Business Insider, Chicago, Dropbox, EBay, Etsy, EWeek, Expedia Group, Facebook, Federal Communications Commission, FOSTA-SESTA, Google, Information privacy, Internet, Internet service provider, LinkedIn, Lobbying, Michael Beckerman, Microsoft, Net neutrality in the United States, Net neutrality law, Netflix, North American Free Trade Agreement, NPR, Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act, Patent troll, PayPal, Politico, Privacy law, Rahm Emanuel, Reuters, San Francisco, Seattle, The Hill (newspaper), The Washington Post, Trade association, Vehicle for hire, Washington, D.C., Web browsing history.

  2. Internet governance advocacy groups
  3. Internet in the United States

Airbnb

Airbnb, Inc. is an American company operating an online marketplace for short-and-long-term homestays and experiences in various countries and regions.

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Ajit Pai

Ajit Varadaraj Pai (born January 10, 1973) is an American lawyer who served as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 2017 to 2021.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

See Internet Association and Amazon (company)

Business Insider

Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Dropbox

Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by the American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, U.S. that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software.

See Internet Association and Dropbox

EBay

eBay Inc. (often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide.

See Internet Association and EBay

Etsy

Etsy, Inc. is an American e-commerce company with an emphasis on the selling of handmade or vintage items and craft supplies.

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EWeek

eWeek (Enterprise Newsweekly, stylized as eWEEK), formerly PCWeek, is a technology and business magazine.

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Expedia Group

Expedia Group, Inc. is an American travel technology company that owns and operates travel fare aggregators and travel metasearch engines, including Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, Travelocity, Hotwire.com, Orbitz, Ebookers, CheapTickets, CarRentals.com, Expedia Cruises, Wotif, and Trivago.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.

See Internet Association and Federal Communications Commission

FOSTA-SESTA

FOSTA (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act) and SESTA (Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act) are U.S. Senate and House bills which became law on April 11, 2018.

See Internet Association and FOSTA-SESTA

Google

Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Information privacy

Information privacy is the relationship between the collection and dissemination of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, contextual information norms, and the legal and political issues surrounding them.

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Internet

The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.

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Internet service provider

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides myriad services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet.

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LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a business and employment-focused social media platform that works through websites and mobile apps.

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Lobbying

Lobbying is a form of advocacy, which lawfully attempts to directly influence legislators or government officials, such as regulatory agencies or judiciary.

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Michael Beckerman

Michael Beckerman is an American lobbyist who is vice president at TikTok.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

See Internet Association and Microsoft

Net neutrality in the United States

In the United States, net neutrality—the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) should make no distinctions between different kinds of content on the Internet, and to not discriminate based on such distinctions—has been an issue of contention between end-users and ISPs since the 1990s. Internet Association and net neutrality in the United States are internet in the United States.

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Net neutrality law

Net neutrality law refers to laws and regulations which enforce the principle of net neutrality.

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Netflix

Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

See Internet Association and Netflix

North American Free Trade Agreement

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA; Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, TLCAN; Accord de libre-échange nord-américain, ALÉNA) was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that created a trilateral trade bloc in North America.

See Internet Association and North American Free Trade Agreement

NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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The Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA) is United States federal law that creates a conditional 'safe harbor' for online service providers (OSP), a group which includes Internet service providers (ISP) and other Internet intermediaries, by shielding them for their own acts of direct copyright infringement (when they make unauthorized copies) as well as shielding them from potential secondary liability for the infringing acts of others.

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Patent troll

In international law and business, patent trolling or patent hoarding is a categorical or pejorative term applied to a person or company that attempts to enforce patent rights against accused infringers far beyond the patent's actual value or contribution to the prior art, often through hardball legal tactics (frivolous litigation, vexatious litigation, strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP), chilling effects, etc.) Patent trolls often do not manufacture products or supply services based upon the patents in question.

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PayPal

PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers; it serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders.

See Internet Association and PayPal

Politico

Politico (stylized in all caps), known originally as The Politico, is an American political digital newspaper company.

See Internet Association and Politico

Privacy law

Privacy law is a set of regulations that govern the collection, storage, and utilization of personal information from healthcare, governments, companies, public or private entities, or individuals.

See Internet Association and Privacy law

Rahm Emanuel

Rahm Israel Emanuel (born November 29, 1959) is an American politician and diplomat currently serving as United States ambassador to Japan.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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The Hill (newspaper)

The Hill is an American newspaper and digital media company based in Washington, D.C., that was founded in 1994.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Trade association

A trade association, also known as an industry trade group, business association, sector association or industry body, is an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry.

See Internet Association and Trade association

Vehicle for hire

A vehicle for hire is a vehicle providing private transport or shared transport for a fee, in which passengers are generally free to choose their points or approximate points of origin and destination, unlike public transport, and which they do not drive themselves, as in car rental and carsharing.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Web browsing history

Web browsing history refers to the list of web pages a user has visited, as well as associated metadata such as page title and time of visit.

See Internet Association and Web browsing history

See also

Internet governance advocacy groups

Internet in the United States

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Association

Also known as The Internet Association.