Quotes by Marvin Ammori - Page 2

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.
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Ability
Convince
Criticize
Democracy
Powerful
Symbolic
Unjust
Change Law People
Point
Ways
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In 'Bush v. Gore,' five justices had a partisan outcome in mind and then made up the judicial principle to justify it, while claiming that the decision would not be precedent for any future cases.
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Cases
Gore
Judicial
Precedent
Bush
Claiming
Justices
Outcome
Partisan
Principle
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I have tried to help build a framework that recaptures the First Amendment as a principle to empower all Americans, politically and personally, through access to plentiful, diverse communications spaces.
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Access
Diverse
First Amendment
Framework
Plentiful
Build
All Americans
Amendment
Communications
Empower
Personally
Principle
Spaces
Tried
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Both Republicans and Democrats can agree that more choices and lower prices in transportation would benefit consumers. Democrats would consider it 'smart government' and Republicans 'limited government.'
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Agree
Consumers
Limited Government
Transportation
Benefit
Democrats
Republicans
Prices
Republicans And Democrats
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Even though the Internet touches every part of our lives, one person is to blame for potentially destroying its potential for innovation and freedom of expression: former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.
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Blame
Destroying
Fcc
Former
Freedom Of Expression
Innovation
Julius
Potentially
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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.
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Neutrality
Notion
Payment
Proposal
Ban
Central
Indeed
Net
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Google (and Bing and Yahoo!) don't 'owe' any company traffic. If a company has to spend more on advertising on Google, in addition to investing in search-engine-optimization, that is not a violation of any law.
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Advertising
Investing
Traffic
Violation
Addition
Bing
Owe
Yahoo
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The CEO of AT&T told an interviewer back in 2005 that he wanted to introduce a new business model to the Internet: charging companies like Google and Yahoo! to reliably reach Internet users on the AT&T network.
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Ceo
Charging
New Business
Users
Business Model
Interviewer
Introduce
Network
Reliably
Yahoo
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I'm all in favor of the FTC investigating companies when it believes there is proper cause to do so. An investigation, however, can lead to political pressure to bring a case, even if such a case is unwarranted.
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Investigating
Believes
Favor
Proper
Unwarranted
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Charter's merger sales pitch is pretty straightforward: it argues that it has always been too small to bully Internet companies, TV makers, and its own customers, so it has'un-cable' practices they hope to extend.
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Bully
Charter
Customers
Makers
Straightforward
Extend
Merger
Practices
Sales
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Google pays advertisers based not just on payment per click but also by number of clicks. The interplay between the two sets the prices, so a government-regulated price for 'equal access' might be difficult to set.
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Payment
Advertiser
Click
Per
Prices
Sets
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The Startup Act should give all Americans, not just immigrants, a better shot at being tomorrow's engineers and entrepreneurs. And that opportunity could begin at a young age with education in computer programming.
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Engineers
Immigrants
Programming
Tomorrow
Young Age
All Americans
Entrepreneurs
Startup
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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.
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January
March
Neutrality
Commission
Communications
Dozens
Favor
Hundreds
Net
Policymakers
Weighed
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Charter hired me - which, to be honest, took some humility on its part, since I have helped lead public campaigns against cable companies like Charter - to advise it in crafting its commitment to network neutrality.
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Advise
Campaigns
Charter
Humility
Neutrality
Cable
Crafting
Network
To Be Honest
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Internet users should be able to choose where to go online and which applications to use. Comcast, say, shouldn't be allowed to block Skype just because it could siphon the communications giant's telephone business.
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Block
Skype
Users
Applications
Communications
Giant
Telephone
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Google's competitors argue that Google designs its search display to promote Google 'products' like Google Maps, Google Places, and Google Shopping, ahead of competitors like MapQuest, Yelp, and product-search sites.
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Competitors
Display
Maps
Shopping
Argue
Promote
Search
Sites
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Data can generally travel the speed of light unless networks are congested. When there's congestion, usually the cheapest and best thing is simply to add capacity generally, not to prioritize certain sites over others.
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Add
Capacity
Congestion
Data
Prioritize
Speed
Cheapest
Networks
Sites
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'Negative liberty' is a political science term meaning a liberty from government action. It is not a liberty to anything - like the liberty to meaningfully contribute to public debate or to have ample spaces for speech.
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Debate
Liberty
Political Science
Term
Ample
Contribute
Meaningfully
Spaces
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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?
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Display
Dominance
Site
Bing
Facebook
Leverage
Refuses
Search
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The neutral and level playing field provided by permissionless innovation has empowered all of us with the freedom to express ourselves and innovate online without having to seek the permission of a remote telecom executive.
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Empowered
Level Playing Field
Permission
Telecom
Neutral
Executive
Innovate
Seek
Playing Field
Provided
Remote
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'Bush v. Gore' gave us a president who lost the popular vote, eventually appointed two more justices, and led us into a war of choice while failing to regulate a financial system dependent on toxic mortgage-backed derivatives.
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Dependent
Derivatives
Failing
Financial System
Gore
Toxic
Appointed
Bush
Justices
Led
Regulate
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I find personalized search convenient - I read stories on my Facebook feed, my Twitter feed, daily email services, and my iPhone's Flipboard app, and would love to be able to focus my searches on just those particular services.
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Convenient
Iphone
Personalized
App
Feed
Facebook
Search
Services
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Ever since the end of Medieval feudalism, and the writings of John Locke, we have understood the importance of being able to buy and sell one's own property, including books and watches, both for reasons of economics and liberty.
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Economics
Feudalism
Importance
Including
Liberty
Medieval
Understood
Watches
Buy
Sell
John
Locke
Reasons
Writings
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Before the Internet, we were in a different sort of dark age. We had to wait to hear news on TV at night or in print the next day. We had to go to record stores to find new music. Cocktail party debates couldn't be settled on the spot.
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New Music
Print
Record Stores
Cocktail
Debates
Spot
In Print
Settled
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If someone has copyright over some piece of your stuff, you can sell it without permission from the copyright holder because the copyright holder can only control the 'first-sale.' The Supreme Court has recognized this doctrine since 1908.
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Copyright
Doctrine
Permission
Supreme
Supreme Court
Holder
Recognized
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In software and many other online markets, even dominant firms face potential threats because of the low costs for competitors to enter those markets. Threats more easily emerge because of better or newer technologies leapfrogging older ones.
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Competitors
Software
Emerge
Technologies
Threats
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'Network neutrality' is sometimes called 'Internet freedom' or 'Internet openness' and is a legal principle that would forbid cable and phone companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast from blocking some websites or providing special priority to others.
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Legal
Neutrality
Openness
Providing
Blocking
Cable
Forbid
Network
Principle
Websites
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A rule against paid fast lanes would encourage additional capacity; a rule permitting paid fast lanes would simply encourage cable companies to create congested slow lanes on the Internet so they could make money by selling fast lanes to big companies.
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Big Companies
Selling
Additional
Cable
Slow
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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.
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Innovation
Iphone
Roots
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Alexander
Associated
Bell
Graham
Inventive
Steve
Valley
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Net neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all traffic that goes through their networks the same, not offering preferential treatment to some websites over others or charging some companies arbitrary fees to reach users.
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Arbitrary
Charging
Fees
Neutrality
Offering
Providers
Service Providers
Traffic
Treatment
Users
Networks
Net
Websites
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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.
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Culprit
According
Report
Charge
Commission
Dismal
Explained
Governments
Local Governments
Prices
Released
Simple Reason
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The current FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, is highly regarded, but some distrust him because he is the former head lobbyist of both the cable and wireless phone industries. He's also made some statements suggesting he doesn't understand or opposes network neutrality.
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Distrust
Fcc
Former
Neutrality
Statements
Suggesting
Wireless
Cable
Current
Industries
Lobbyist
Network
Regarded
Tom
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In the early 1990s, Americans used their home phone lines to connect their desktop computers to the Internet via ISPs like AOL, Earthlink, or Netzero. Back then, the ISPs didn't have cost-effective technology to select particular sites for blocking or privileging.
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Computers
Technology
Desktop
Lines
Particular
Select
Aol
Blocking
Connect
Cost-Effective
Early
Phone
Sites
Via
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Net neutrality sounds wonky and technical but is actually quite simple. It would keep the Internet as it has always been - cable and phone companies would remain mere gateways to all sites, rather than gatekeepers determining where users can go and what innovators can offer them.
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Gatekeepers
Innovators
Mere
Neutrality
Users
Cable
Determining
Net
Offer
Sites
Technical
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By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code.
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Code
Machines
Singularity
Smarter
Antiquated
Definition
Increasingly
Innovate
Innovations
Moore
New Technologies
Technologies
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The terms of copyright last far too long: either the life of the author plus 70 years after death for a personal work or 95 years for a corporate work. That length doesn't encourage more authorship - it merely limits the speakers who could share powerful speeches, books, and films.
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Copyright
Corporate
Length
Limits
Plus
Powerful
Share
Speakers
Life Death Work
Author
Books
Either
Life Work Death
Films
Merely
Personal
Terms
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The Supreme Court has crafted doctrines such as 'fair use,' which permits copying materials for criticism, parody, and transformative uses, and has ruled that abstract ideas are not subject to copyright, because courts will not punish people for merely using an abstract concept in speech.
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Abstract
Copying
Criticism
Materials
Parody
Speech
Supreme
Supreme Court
Use People Will
Concept
Courts
Crafted
Doctrines
Merely
Permits
Punish
Ruled
Transformative
Uses
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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.
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Application
Banned
Bias
Fcc
Innovation
Makers
Providers
Service Providers
Decisions
Choice
Classes
Competitive
Good Reason
Interferes
Namely
Network
Service
Toward
User
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Under the Constitution, federal law trumps both state and city law. But antitrust law allows states some exceptional leeway to adopt anticompetitive business regulations, out of respect for states' rights to regulate business. This federal respect for states' rights does not extend to cities.
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Antitrust
Cities
Exceptional
Adopt
Extend
Leeway
Regulate
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To me, freedom of speech and debate are necessary inputs in solving any of our nation's problems, from homelessness and economic inequality to banking, the environment, and national security. Freedom of speech is what Larry Lessig would call a 'root' issue; working on free speech is striking at a root issue.
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Banking
Debate
Economic
Environment
Free Speech
Homelessness
Inequality
Input
Larry
National Security
Security
Freedom Me Freedom Of Speech
Free
Call
Nation
Working
Freedom Freedom Of Speech Me
Issue
Problems
Root
Solving
Striking
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When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration.
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Women
History
Civil Rights
Declaration
Equal
Ideals
Reality
Rights
Vote
History Men Women
Men Women Independence
He
Civil
Nation
Created
History Women Men
Leaders
Jefferson
Owned
Professed
Slaves
Thomas
Throughout
Wrote
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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.
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Copyright
Digital
Millennium
Posts
Reddit
Users
Youtube
Good Enough Long
Facebook
Images
Tumblr
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Thinking about free speech brought me to media regulation, as Americans access so much of their political and cultural speech through mass media. That led me to work on the FCC's media ownership rules beginning in 2005 to fight media consolidation, working with those at Georgetown's IPR, Media Access Project, Free Press, and others.
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Access
Consolidation
Fcc
Free Press
Free Speech
Mass
Mass Media
Media
Ownership
Regulation
Rules
Beginning
Brought
Cultural
Project
Led
Press
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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.
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Competitors
Monopoly
No Problem
Actions
Acts
Assume
Designed
Destroy
Earned
Exists
Restrain
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A report released by the Partnership for a New American Economy and the Partnership for New York City predicts that by 2018, there will be 800,000 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs in the United States that require a master's degree or higher - and only around 550,000 American-graduates with this training.
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American Economy
Engineering
New York City
Partnership
Stem
Report
Master
Released
Require
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Competitors argue that Google rigs its search algorithms to demote listings for competing search engines. Many of the allegations of demotion come generally from sites of pretty questionable quality, such as Nextag and Foundem. Some of Google's primary competitors in 'specialized search' clearly place well in search results - Amazon and Yelp.
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Allegations
Competing
Competitors
Engines
Questionable
Search
Search Engines
Sites
Specialized
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