Ensuring Net neutrality

[Commentary] The new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission picked his first official fight Monday, and it's a doozy. Four decades after engineers at UCLA demonstrated a rudimentary version of the Internet, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski wants to develop new rules limiting what Internet service providers can do to the data traveling through their networks. His proposal drew polite but firm opposition from the phone and cable TV companies that are the dominant providers of broadband connections, which warned that such rules could chill innovation online. We agree that the commission will need to proceed carefully, but we also believe that the right set of so-called Net neutrality rules would promote even more growth and innovation. The FCC should set clear rules that enable ISPs to keep data flowing from all legal services and applications, not just favored ones.