Regardless of the industry, antitrust law is meant to benefit consumers – not competitors. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
I have worked on open Internet, speech, and entrepreneurship issues for years. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
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. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
Evidence and economic theory suggests that control of the Internet by the phone and cable companies would lead to blocking of competing technologies. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
Any ‘network neutrality’ rule should be designed to forbid phone or cable companies from controlling the Internet. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
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. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
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. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
Today, in 2011, I’m giving Secretary Hillary Clinton the nod as the Obama Administration’s improbable MVP in the technology realm. Marvin Ammori Read Quote
