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Marvin Ammori
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The user, not the ISP, should be the kingmaker of apps.
Marvin Ammori
Apps
Should
User
Without network neutrality, cable and phone companies could stifle innovation.
Marvin Ammori
Innovation
Phone
Neutrality
Network
Could
Cable
Without
Stifle
Companies
Broadband companies can have great success offering access to the unfettered Internet.
Marvin Ammori
Success
Great
Internet
Broadband
Great Success
Access
Offering
Unfettered
Companies
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.
Marvin Ammori
Future
Debate
Internet
Will
Year
Broadband
Lies
See
Restricting
More
Open
Betting
Passes
Companies
Each
Each Year
Start
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.
Marvin Ammori
Me
Commitment
Neutrality
To Be Honest
Humility
Took
Some
Network
Charter
Cable
Lead
Part
Since
Like
Advise
Hired
Campaigns
Crafting
Which
Against
Public
Helped
Companies
Honest
The FCC can't enforce press-statement principles without adopting official rules, and those rules must be based on the legal theory of reclassification.
Marvin Ammori
Legal
Rules
Those
Must
Adopting
Principles
Without
Official
Enforce
Theory
Based
The Open Internet principles were not legal rules adopted by the FCC; they were effectively a press statement posted on the FCC website.
Marvin Ammori
Website
Legal
Internet
Statement
Press
Rules
Posted
Adopted
Open
Principles
Were
Effectively
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.
Marvin Ammori
Business
Internet
Google
Back
Interviewer
Reliably
Introduce
Charging
Network
He
New
Like
Reach
New Business
Yahoo
Model
Wanted
CEO
Business Model
Companies
Users
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
Service
Best
Innovation
Better
Monopoly
Rapid
More
Through
Prices
Greater
Nor
Efficiency
Trying
Being
Customer
Customer Service
Lower
Illegal
Competitors
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.
Marvin Ammori
Music
Day
News
Age
Dark
Wait
Internet
Party
Before
Cocktail
Settled
TV
Find
Record
Record Stores
Had
New
Sort
Print
Spot
Go
Were
Hear
New Music
Debates
Different
Stores
In Print
Next
Night
Public participation helped create the Internet, and it helps protect it. That's worth celebrating and remembering.
Marvin Ammori
Worth
Internet
Remembering
Participation
Protect
Celebrating
Public
Create
Helped
Helps
'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
Work
Politics
Me
Neutrality
Top
Visionaries
Magazine
Net
Advancing
Doers
American
Listed
Transforming
American Politics
Coalition
Among
Thinkers
The FCC has made it clear it would punish a cable or phone company for deviating from providing 'neutral' access.
Marvin Ammori
Phone
Made
Punish
Would
Neutral
Cable
Clear
Access
Providing
Company
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
Service
Competition
Simple
Local
Market
Local Governments
Released
Charge
Simple Reason
Could
Federal
Prices
Study
Trade
Culprit
Governments
According
Report
Commission
Lack
Explained
Customers
Dismal
Reason
Why
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.
Marvin Ammori
Business
Internet
Telephone
Say
Giant
Able
Online
Could
Allowed
Because
Block
Go
Just
Where
Just Because
Which
Communications
Should
Use
Choose
Users
Skype
Applications
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.
Marvin Ammori
Home
Technology
Phone
Internet
Back
Cost-Effective
Select
Computers
Particular
Like
Blocking
Lines
American
Sites
Via
Then
Used
Connect
Early
Early 1990s
Desktop
In 2011, mobile data traffic in the United States was eight times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. That's traffic.
Marvin Ammori
Internet
States
Entire
Data
Global
Traffic
Mobile
Times
Eight
Size
United
United States
Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.
Marvin Ammori
King
Defined
Civil
Civil Disobedience
About
David
Generally
Almost
Always
Nonviolent
Been
Disobedience
Gandhi
Expression
Henry
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
Democracy
Change
People
Law
Unjust
Other
Ways
Criticize
Ability
Able
Laws
Point
Powerful
Without
Them
Convince
Should
Symbolic
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.
Marvin Ammori
Life
Work
Death
Long
Films
Too
Corporate
Books
Plus
More
Could
Share
Merely
Powerful
Terms
Limits
Years
Encourage
Author
Personal
Authorship
After
Either
Length
Far
Speakers
Who
Last
Copyright
Speeches
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.
Marvin Ammori
Mathematics
Technology
Science
Training
Will
Degree
Master
Engineering
States
Released
Jobs
City
Only
Higher
Stem
New
Economy
Partnership
Around
Report
American
York
New York
American Economy
New York City
Require
United
United States
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.
Marvin Ammori
You
Control
Recognized
Some
Someone
Only
Stuff
Over
Since
Piece
Doctrine
Supreme
Supreme Court
Because
Court
Without
Permission
Sell
Holder
Your
Copyright
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.
Marvin Ammori
Rights
Problems
Free
Free Speech
Constitutional
Laws
Results
Absurd
Supposed
Courts
American
Avoid
Interpret
Speech
Political institutions are fair game in political debates in a democracy. Nothing is more fair game, in fact, than political matters of public concern.
Marvin Ammori
Democracy
Game
Political
Matters
Nothing
More
Fact
Fair
Fair Game
Institutions
Concern
Political Institutions
Debates
Than
In Fact
Public
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.
Marvin Ammori
People
Will
Criticism
Ruled
Punish
Parody
Abstract
Merely
Fair
Ideas
Concept
Doctrines
Supreme
Supreme Court
Because
Court
Courts
Permits
Materials
Subject
Crafted
Transformative
Which
Use
Uses
Using
Copying
Copyright
Speech
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