7 internet policy ideas that everyone can agree on

[Commentary] Here are seven common-sense reforms we think policy experts across the political spectrum could get behind:

1) Rein in surveillance by the National Security Agency
2) Get rid of bad software patents
3) Reduce excessive copyright protections
4) Don't weaken smartphone encryption
5) Free up more electromagnetic frequencies (spectrum) to speed up mobile networks
6) Remove government oversight of Internet names and addresses
7) Don't let the United Nations expand its role in Internet governance

[Eli Dourado is the director of the Technology Policy Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Danielle Kehl is a policy analyst at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute]