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 Read Quote
Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it’s nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
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. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
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 Read Quote
President Obama is a big supporter of keeping the Internet open. During his presidential campaign, he pledged his support to net neutrality repeatedly. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
Net neutrality is the right thing for our democracy, economy, and global competitiveness. And Americans support an open Internet. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
