Without network neutrality, cable and phone companies could stifle innovation. — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
One goal of law - as we learn in law school from the first day of contracts - is to deter bad… — Marvin Ammori Bad behavior Copy Share Image
I have worked on open Internet, speech, and entrepreneurship issues for years. — Marvin Ammori Business Copy Share Image
The Internet freedom issue we need to focus on is network neutrality. — Marvin Ammori Focus Copy Share Image
Regardless of the industry, antitrust law is meant to benefit consumers - not competitors. — Marvin Ammori Antitrust Copy Share Image
Charter's merger sales pitch is pretty straightforward: it argues that it has always been too small to bully Internet companies, TV makers,… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Political institutions are fair game in political debates in a democracy. Nothing is more fair game, in fact, than political matters of… — Marvin Ammori Democracy Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King. — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
The Open Internet principles were not legal rules adopted by the FCC; they were effectively a press statement posted on the FCC… — Marvin Ammori Internet Copy Share Image
Companies like Pinterest and Twitter did not become sensations because of Google search but because of the many ways users find out… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Net neutrality is the principle forbidding huge telecommunications companies from treating users, websites, or apps differently - say, by letting some work… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
In the post-industrial economy, ideas and great minds often provide far greater return on investment than any other resources or capital investments. — Marvin Ammori Economics Copy Share Image
On the Internet, speed matters. According to research by Microsoft, Google, and others, if a website is even 250 milliseconds slower than… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Net neutrality sounds wonky and technical but is actually quite simple. It would keep the Internet as it has always been -… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Competitors argue that Google rigs its search algorithms to demote listings for competing search engines. Many of the allegations of demotion come… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
A report released by the Partnership for a New American Economy and the Partnership for New York City predicts that by 2018,… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Under the Constitution, federal law trumps both state and city law. But antitrust law allows states some exceptional leeway to adopt anticompetitive… — Marvin Ammori Antitrust Copy Share Image
Under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Tumblr, YouTube, Reddit, WordPress, and Facebook aren't responsible for the copyright infringement of each of… — Marvin Ammori Copyright Copy Share Image
In the early 1990s, Americans used their home phone lines to connect their desktop computers to the Internet via ISPs like AOL,… — Marvin Ammori Computers Copy Share Image
In software and many other online markets, even dominant firms face potential threats because of the low costs for competitors to enter… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Net neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all traffic that goes through their networks the same, not… — Marvin Ammori Internet Copy Share Image
'Politico Magazine' listed me among the top 50 'thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics' for my work in coalitions advancing net neutrality. — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Charter hired me - which, to be honest, took some humility on its part, since I have helped lead public campaigns against… — Marvin Ammori Commitment Copy Share Image
Data can generally travel the speed of light unless networks are congested. When there's congestion, usually the cheapest and best thing is… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Today, in 2011, I'm giving Secretary Hillary Clinton the nod as the Obama Administration's improbable MVP in the technology realm. — Marvin Ammori Giving Copy Share Image
President Obama is a big supporter of keeping the Internet open. During his presidential campaign, he pledged his support to net neutrality… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Net neutrality is the right thing for our democracy, economy, and global competitiveness. And Americans support an open Internet. — Marvin Ammori Democracy Copy Share Image
I'm all in favor of the FTC investigating companies when it believes there is proper cause to do so. An investigation, however,… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Evidence and economic theory suggests that control of the Internet by the phone and cable companies would lead to blocking of competing… — Marvin Ammori Control Copy Share Image
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 Business Copy Share Image
A ban on paid priority is central to any real net neutrality proposal, beginning with the Snowe-Dorgan Bill of 2006. Indeed, the… — Marvin Ammori Beginning Copy Share Image
I have tried to help build a framework that recaptures the First Amendment as a principle to empower all Americans, politically and… — Marvin Ammori Communication Copy Share Image
Google (and Bing and Yahoo!) don't 'owe' any company traffic. If a company has to spend more on advertising on Google, in… — Marvin Ammori Advertising Copy Share Image
Even though the Internet touches every part of our lives, one person is to blame for potentially destroying its potential for innovation… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Google's competitors argue that Google designs its search display to promote Google 'products' like Google Maps, Google Places, and Google Shopping, ahead… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone's inventor: Alexander Graham Bell. — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Being a 'monopoly' is not illegal, nor is trying to best one's competitors through lower prices, better customer service, greater efficiency, or… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
In 'Bush v. Gore,' five justices had a partisan outcome in mind and then made up the judicial principle to justify it,… — Marvin Ammori Constitution Copy Share Image
