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• The FCC can't enforce press-statement principles without adopting official rules, and those rules must be based on the legal theory of reclassification.

  

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• 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.

  

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  • Trying
  • Service
  • Innovation

• The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone's inventor: Alexander Graham Bell.

  

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  • Music

• Encourage public schools to teach American children how to code just after they learn to multiply.

  

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  • Children
  • American

• 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.

  

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  • Law
  • Competition

• 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.

  

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  • Free
  • Lawyer

• I find personalized search convenient - I read stories on my Facebook feed, my Twitter feed, daily email services, and my iPhone's Flipboard app, and would love to be able to focus my searches on just those particular services.

  

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  • Focus
  • Daily
  • Search

• 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.

  

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  • Political

• 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.

  

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  • Money

• The user, not the ISP, should be the kingmaker of apps.

  

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• The Open Internet principles were not legal rules adopted by the FCC; they were effectively a press statement posted on the FCC website.

  

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• 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.

  

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  • People

• Public participation helped create the Internet, and it helps protect it. That's worth celebrating and remembering.

  

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• In 'Bush v. Gore,' five justices had a partisan outcome in mind and then made up the judicial principle to justify it, while claiming that the decision would not be precedent for any future cases.

  

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  • Up
  • Mind
  • Future

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

  

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  • Search

• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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  • Service

• Ever since the end of Medieval feudalism, and the writings of John Locke, we have understood the importance of being able to buy and sell one's own property, including books and watches, both for reasons of economics and liberty.

  

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• 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.

  

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  • Hope
  • Pretty
  • Small

• 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.

  

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  • Future
  • Lies

• The Internet freedom issue we need to focus on is network neutrality.

  

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  • Freedom
  • Focus

• Liability limit has become a symbol of corporate greed in passing the risk of disaster to the U.S. government and U.S. citizens.

  

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  • Risk
  • Greed

• 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.

  

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  • Simple

• Companies like Pinterest and Twitter did not become sensations because of Google search but because of the many ways users find out about great sites.

  

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  • Great
  • Search