The complaints, he maintains, are short-sighted and choking the development of innovation around public transportation.
Net neutrality has pitted the FCC and civil society groups against internet service providers, with the former arguing that data throttling must be prevented and the latter claiming that the FCC's rules are choking the development of network infrastructure.
Giving all children a good start in life helps weed out the blights choking human development.
It dissuades investment, dampens economic growth and chokes off development.
Nancy Wittenberg, environmental affairs director for the New Jersey Builders Association, said that she and others were suspicious that the new rules would simply choke off development.
But Palestinians say it has choked economic development in Gaza, separated families, prevented young people from getting an education and kept residents isolated from the world.
While it is clear that a lack of access to energy and resources, or their uneven distribution, chokes economic development, excess energy consumption from fossil-fuel sources promotes extensive pollution and global warming, and is a sign of economic and public ill-health and inequality.
"The National Rifle Association and its allies in Congress have largely succeeded in choking off the development of evidence upon which that policy could be based".
Since 1996, the government has been choking off residential development, squeezing the number of new home building permits to just 102 in the past three years.
As Paul Farmer Bill Clintonn's deputy special envoy of the UN to Haiti) testified to the US Congress in 2010: "Choking off assistance for development and for the provision of basic services also choked off oxygen to the government, which was the intention all along: to dislodge the Aristide administration".
