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The user, not the ISP, should be the kingmaker of apps.
The Internet freedom issue we need to focus on is network neutrality.
The Internet isn't just itself a revolution - it sometimes starts them, too.
Without network neutrality, cable and phone companies could stifle innovation.
News seems to travel far more quickly on Twitter and Facebook than through search.
Broadband companies can have great success offering access to the unfettered Internet.
Regardless of the industry, antitrust law is meant to benefit consumers - not competitors.
Encourage public schools to teach American children how to code just after they learn to multiply.
I discover real-time news far more often on Facebook than on Google News or a regular Google search.
One goal of law - as we learn in law school from the first day of contracts - is to deter bad behavior.
The fights for media justice and racial justice have been intertwined since the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
The FCC has made it clear it would punish a cable or phone company for deviating from providing 'neutral' access.
Any 'network neutrality' rule should be designed to forbid phone or cable companies from controlling the Internet.
Public participation helped create the Internet, and it helps protect it. That's worth celebrating and remembering.
Anyone unhappy with Google can use other search engines - including DuckDuckGo and Blekko, along with Bing or Yahoo.
The FCC should obviously not propose bad rules that will be struck down; it should propose good rules that will be upheld.
From search and books to online TV and operating systems, antitrust affects our daily digital lives in more ways than we think.
Free speech has remained a quintessential American ideal, even as our society has moved from the ink quill to the touch screen.
Google's competitors fail to demonstrate that Google's actions stifle competition rather than reflect pro-consumer innovations.
Liability limit has become a symbol of corporate greed in passing the risk of disaster to the U.S. government and U.S. citizens.
Net neutrality is the right thing for our democracy, economy, and global competitiveness. And Americans support an open Internet.
In 2011, mobile data traffic in the United States was eight times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. That's traffic.
Today, in 2011, I'm giving Secretary Hillary Clinton the nod as the Obama Administration's improbable MVP in the technology realm.
The FCC sided with the public and adopted extremely strong net neutrality rules that should be a global model for Internet freedom.
There is just one exception to the FCC's no-throttling rule - if a company can prove that throttling is 'reasonable network management.'
The Open Internet principles were not legal rules adopted by the FCC; they were effectively a press statement posted on the FCC website.
The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone's inventor: Alexander Graham Bell.
Almost 85 percent of the Latin American market is subject to net neutrality rules, and the European Parliament already favors strong ones.
Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.
If the court is a political institution making important political decisions, then the public should debate the politics of Supreme Court decisions.
Evidence and economic theory suggests that control of the Internet by the phone and cable companies would lead to blocking of competing technologies.
In the post-industrial economy, ideas and great minds often provide far greater return on investment than any other resources or capital investments.
Companies like Pinterest and Twitter did not become sensations because of Google search but because of the many ways users find out about great sites.
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.
Political institutions are fair game in political debates in a democracy. Nothing is more fair game, in fact, than political matters of public concern.
President Obama is a big supporter of keeping the Internet open. During his presidential campaign, he pledged his support to net neutrality repeatedly.
The FCC can't enforce press-statement principles without adopting official rules, and those rules must be based on the legal theory of reclassification.
Default choices often remain unchanged for no reason other than being the default, either because of this lack of information or humans' status quo bias.
As each year and debate passes, more broadband companies will start to see that their future lies not in restricting an open Internet but in betting on it.
Much of my work strikes me as pretty unified: as a lawyer, working in several areas, I have thought about how to promote freedom of speech broadly for everyone.
Courts are supposed to interpret laws to avoid 'absurd results' and to avoid constitutional problems - such as infringing on the free speech rights of Americans.
'Politico Magazine' listed me among the top 50 'thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics' for my work in coalitions advancing net neutrality.
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.
On the Internet, speed matters. According to research by Microsoft, Google, and others, if a website is even 250 milliseconds slower than a rival, people will visit it less often.
In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies.
The first-sale doctrine reflects basic common sense - and follows from the logic of treating copyrights and other 'intellectual property' with no more protection than regular property.
President Obama's FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, has a reputation in D.C. of being a 'tepid' regulator. From reports of his net neutrality proposal, he's living up to that reputation.
Congress created a safe harbor for defamation in 1996 and for copyright in 1998. Both safe harbors were designed to ensure that the Internet would remain a participatory medium of speech.
A network neutrality rule could result in mere 'slaps on the wrist' or involve such expensive and difficult litigation procedures that no small company or consumer could ever bring a case.
Net neutrality is the principle forbidding huge telecommunications companies from treating users, websites, or apps differently - say, by letting some work better than others over their pipes.