Jason Alden has an article in Thursday’s Washington Post that discusses how we ended up at the Net neutrality cross roads and explains why we need to take the road most traveled and work with legislators.

“The FCC stands poised to reclassify broadband service providers as content carriers, a category that would subject them to the same sort of regulation that telephone companies are saddled with, even giving the FCC the ability to set rates. The agency’s chairman says that the FCC won’t use this power — but this could change in another administration. Such a move would be a serious step backward.”

After over a decade of “understood” Internet regulation, the FCC decided it should be the new regulatory body. This stemmed from a lost legal battle where a court ruled the FCC had no authority over Internet service providers. After all the recent debate, Alden still sees a compromise playing out in this order:

“… legislative enactment of something like the Google-Verizon plan, with an emphasis on transparency about decisions that providers are making. Giving the FCC the authority to nudge things in the right direction will be a good first step.”

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