"The companies signed on to the letter include Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Twitter, along with a wide array of other companies from across the tech sector. While there are a few names notably absent from among the signers, including Apple, Box, Oracle and SAP, New America Foundation Fellow Marvin Ammori said their absence may have been related to how the letter was compiled. “Until yesterday or Monday late evening, this was a startup/small company letter. Period,” he wrote in an email to GeekWire. “We had 0 big guys. I didn’t even really ask. It was all the little guys organizing and pushing this letter. Some big guys wanted to join because they agreed with the substance, and then more and more, but I hardly did any outreach to them, and it was sort of haphazard.”"
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