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

- Marvin Ammori
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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.

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.

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.

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.

The fights for media justice and racial justice have been intertwined since the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.

The FCC should obviously not propose bad rules that will be struck down; it should propose good rules that will be upheld.

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.

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

In the post-industrial economy, ideas and great minds often provide far greater return on investment than any other resources or capital investments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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