Marvin Ammori

“Regardless of the industry, antitrust law is meant to benefit consumers - not competitors.”

“Almost 85 percent of the Latin American market is subject to net neutrality rules, and the European Parliament already favors strong ones.”

“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.”

“Without network neutrality, cable and phone companies could stifle innovation.”

“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.”

“News seems to travel far more quickly on Twitter and Facebook than through search.”

“Today, in 2011, I'm giving Secretary Hillary Clinton the nod as the Obama Administration's improbable MVP in the technology realm.”

“I discover real-time news far more often on Facebook than on Google News or a regular Google search.”

“If the court is a political institution making important political decisions, then the public should debate the politics of Supreme Court decisions.”

“Free speech has remained a quintessential American ideal, even as our society has moved from the ink quill to the touch screen.”

“The FCC has made it clear it would punish a cable or phone company for deviating from providing 'neutral' access.”

“Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Anyone unhappy with Google can use other search engines - including DuckDuckGo and Blekko, along with Bing or Yahoo.”

“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.”

“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.”

“In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies.”

“Any 'network neutrality' rule should be designed to forbid phone or cable companies from controlling the Internet.”