Internet Association

The Internet Association
Formation2012; 12 years ago (2012)
Dissolved2021
TypeTrade association
Location
Key people
Michael Beckerman; Founder and former President & CEO
Websiteinternetassociation.org

The Internet Association (IA) was an American lobbying group based in Washington, D.C., which represented companies involved in the Internet.[1] It was founded in 2012 by Michael Beckerman and several companies, including Google, Amazon, eBay, and Facebook,[2] and was most recently headed by president and CEO K. Dane Snowden before shutting down.

Prior to shuttering, IA lobbied Congress, the courts, foreign governments, federal and state agencies, and state and local governments on a range of regulatory issues.[3] The group also published economic research on the internet economy.

Group members had included companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, Etsy, Expedia, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Netflix and PayPal.[4] Internet Association had offices in Washington, DC; Albany, New York;[5][6] Chicago, Illinois;[7] Seattle, Washington;[8] Sacramento, California;[9][10] and London, UK.[11][12]

  1. ^ Johnson, Ted (2018-01-05). "Internet Association Will Join Legal Battle to Fight FCC's Net Neutrality Repeal". Variety. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  2. ^ Weiss, Todd R. (26 July 2012). "Google, Amazon, Facebook Backing new Internet Lobbying Group: Report". eWeek. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  3. ^ Bartz, Diane. "Google, eBay, Amazon, Facebook back new lobbying group". Reuters. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  4. ^ "'We are disappointed': Tech firms are speaking up against the FCC's plan to kill net neutrality". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  5. ^ Lovett, Kenneth. "Internet Association upping its presence in New York". nydailynews.com. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  6. ^ Stashenko, Joel (February 7, 2017). "Lobbying Group for Airbnb, Uber Opens Office in Albany". New York Law Journal. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  7. ^ Kapos, Shia; Hurst, Adrienne. "5 THINGS TO WATCH this Election Day — If there's NO CLEAR WINNER — Is MUSK's tunnel toast?". POLITICO. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  8. ^ "Internet Association, a powerful Silicon Valley lobby, is opening an office in Seattle". GeekWire. 2017-11-30. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  9. ^ Young, Allen (19 March 2014). "Internet lobbyist lands in Sacramento". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  10. ^ Rosenhall, Laurel (2015-09-14). "Democrats torn between shiny new ventures and old-school allies". CALmatters. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  11. ^ "Google, eBay, Amazon, Facebook back new lobbying group". Reuters. 2012-07-25. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  12. ^ Boland, Hannah (2018-11-14). "Silicon Valley lobbyist launches UK office as regulation threat grows". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-05-12.