The Story of the FCC's Net Neutrality Decision and Why It Won't Stand Up in Court

[Commentary] We often forget that within a generation -- a blink of history's eye -- the Internet has fundamentally transformed how people in the United States and around the globe live. And it simply wasn't broken, as even the Federal Communications Commission conceded. This is why I have called network neutrality a solution that won't work to a problem that doesn't exist. And this is why, in my view, the FCC's regulations are not a model for the future. They are a relic of the past.

Time will tell whether these regulations are deemed to comport with the law. But we can already draw an unfortunate policy lesson: the bipartisan era in which the Internet was seen as a vibrant and competitive free market, unfettered by heavy-handed regulation, has come to an end.