Political divisions may be fierce, but there is at least one issue that most Americans agree on: net neutrality.
The Internet belongs to all of us, not big telecom.
On so many issues, California leads the country.
There should be an understanding and trust that your privacy and data will be protected.
An Internet service provider reasonably needs to know your name and address. But it's hard to imagine why a provider would need to collect your Internet browsing habits other than to sell your data.
Internet service providers should not be permitted to block, throttle and unfairly favor certain content, applications, services or devices.
Sometimes, in Silicon Valley, there is this attitude that we know best and we can change the world. The boldness allows us to invent the future. But, we need more empathy for those who are left behind and a recognition that Silicon Valley can't just call the shots and expect change.
We need to think about what Silicon Valley can contribute to the country - not just that somehow government bureaucrats should listen to our way.
The framers understood that the momentous decision to go to war requires the informed consent of the American people, expressed through their elected representatives.
My grandfather, or Nana Ji, as we called him, was a family legend. Amarnath Vidyalankar spent his life fighting for India's independence, which included spending four years in prison in Mahatma Gandhi's movement. I still remember the conversations we had together, many of them while playing chess.
We have to return to a foreign policy of restraint, one that develops our capabilities and our potential in communities across America, and not become bogged down in unwinnable conflicts that lead to greater resentment of the United States, and that don't advance American interests.
Net neutrality is at the core of what we love about the Internet. Put simply, it allows any individual or business equal access to online services.
The digital revolution is one that every community should and can participate in.
I don't think American life requires you to be on Facebook. It does require you to have access to the Internet.
We needed overtime laws, we needed unionization, we needed to figure out how to distribute the Industrial Revolution's gains with equity, and we're going through something similar with the technology revolution.
We can't have all the concentration of wealth in a few places in this country. We've got to create economic opportunity and new industries in communities that feel left behind.
We must make it clear that we won't interfere in other countries' elections and work to make that the clear international norm.
We have a choice in Silicon Valley. We can either continue to exist as an island to ourselves, focused on wealth creation and innovation... or we can understand that we are in the middle of a software revolution and answer the nation's call to provide economic opportunity and technology to places left behind.
We have tried to change regimes through a variety of means - over 80 times, by some estimates. Many of these efforts were counterproductive to U.S. interests.
America has been a force for much good in the world. But we should learn from the mistakes of an over-expansionist foreign policy and return to the restraint that George Washington and John Quincy Adams advocated.
