The FCC's Guide to Losing Network Neutrality Without Really Trying

[Commentary] Over the past year, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has managed to take the Administration's top tech priority - and Obama's promise to "take a back seat to no one" on the issue - and driven it into a ditch.

Instead of staking out a strong position and forcing powerful companies like AT&T and Comcast to come to the table for a compromise, Chairman Genachowski has been negotiating against himself, backpedaling from his backpedaling, and ultimately proposing toothless rules that look nothing like real Network Neutrality. Yet now Genachowski expects the millions of Americans who have spoken out for Net Neutrality to buy this lemon when the FCC meets to vote on his rules on Dec. 21.