Over the course of a year – from January 2014 to March 2015 – millions of Americans, hundreds of businesses, and dozens of policymakers weighed in at the Federal Communications Commission in favor of net neutrality. – Marvin Ammori
There is just one exception to the FCC’s no-throttling rule – if a company can prove that throttling is ‘reasonable network management.’ – Marvin Ammori
The Internet is one of the most revolutionary technologies the world has ever known. It has given us an entire universe of information in our pockets. – Marvin Ammori
If a company is not a monopoly, then the law assumes market competition can restrain the company’s actions. No problem. If a monopoly exists, but the monopoly does not engage in acts designed to destroy competition, then we can assume that it earned and is keeping its monopoly the pro-consumer way: by out-innovating its competitors. – Marvin Ammori
Facebook refuses to let Google index or display content from its site. Facebook has partnered with Bing to make its results more social. Is Facebook acting to leverage its dominance in social towards a dominance in search? – Marvin Ammori
A ban on paid priority is central to any real net neutrality proposal, beginning with the Snowe-Dorgan Bill of 2006. Indeed, the notion of ‘payment for priority’ is what started the net neutrality fight. – Marvin Ammori
Liability limit has become a symbol of corporate greed in passing the risk of disaster to the U.S. government and U.S. citizens. – Marvin Ammori
Being a ‘monopoly’ is not illegal, nor is trying to best one’s competitors through lower prices, better customer service, greater efficiency, or more rapid innovation. – Marvin Ammori
The FCC sided with the public and adopted extremely strong net neutrality rules that should be a global model for Internet freedom. – Marvin Ammori
Net neutrality is the right thing for our democracy, economy, and global competitiveness. And Americans support an open Internet. – Marvin Ammori
Under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Tumblr, YouTube, Reddit, WordPress, and Facebook aren’t responsible for the copyright infringement of each of their millions of users, so long as they take down specific posts, videos, or images when notified by copyright holders. But copyright holders thought that wasn’t good enough. – Marvin Ammori
Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can’t change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law. – Marvin Ammori
In 1984, the Federal Trade Commission released a report that explained why taxis could charge customers exorbitant prices for dismal service. The simple reason, according to the 176-page study: lack of competition in the market. The culprit: local governments. – Marvin Ammori
The FCC banned throttling for good reason, namely that Internet service providers should not bias their networks toward some applications or classes of applications. Biasing the network interferes with user choice, innovation, decisions of application makers, and the competitive marketplace. – Marvin Ammori
From search and books to online TV and operating systems, antitrust affects our daily digital lives in more ways than we think. – Marvin Ammori
The iPhone will forever be associated with the inventive genius of Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley. But the roots of innovation can be traced back – from one genius to another, at least – back to the genius who put the phone in iPhone: Alexander Graham Bell. – Marvin Ammori
Public participation helped create the Internet, and it helps protect it. That’s worth celebrating and remembering. – Marvin Ammori