Free speech has remained a quintessential American ideal, even as our society has moved from the ink quill to the touch screen. Marvin Ammori More Quotes by Marvin Ammori More Quotes From Marvin Ammori All afternoon in fact I've received emails and calls from entrepreneurs across the country encouraged by the chairman's remarks, willing to work with him. Marvin Ammori politics '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. Marvin Ammori debategovernmentsciencenegative 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 cityconstitutionrespectbusiness One goal of law - as we learn in law school from the first day of contracts - is to deter bad behavior. Marvin Ammori daybehaviorlawschool 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. Marvin Ammori fightmeworkthinking 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. Marvin Ammori newinnovationwisdomlaw Regardless of the industry, antitrust law is meant to benefit consumers - not competitors. Marvin Ammori regardlesscompetitorsindustrylaw In the post-industrial economy, ideas and great minds often provide far greater return on investment than any other resources or capital investments. Marvin Ammori greatinvestmenteconomyideas 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. Marvin Ammori phonegointernetsimple Anyone unhappy with Google can use other search engines - including DuckDuckGo and Blekko, along with Bing or Yahoo. Marvin Ammori searchgoogleunhappyuse From search and books to online TV and operating systems, antitrust affects our daily digital lives in more ways than we think. Marvin Ammori searchdailythinkdigital 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. Marvin Ammori treatservicetrafficinternet 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. Marvin Ammori willinternetresearchpeople Almost 85 percent of the Latin American market is subject to net neutrality rules, and the European Parliament already favors strong ones. Marvin Ammori americanrulesparliamentstrong 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. Marvin Ammori phoneinnovationgeniusroots The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone's inventor: Alexander Graham Bell. Marvin Ammori bellbackmusicplay 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. Marvin Ammori trafficadvertisingcompanylaw 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. Marvin Ammori bringleadpoliticalpressure 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. Marvin Ammori competitionproblemlawway Google's competitors fail to demonstrate that Google's actions stifle competition rather than reflect pro-consumer innovations. Marvin Ammori reflectactionsgooglecompetition
