Eight reasons to support Congress’s network neutrality bill

[Commentary] Here are the top eight reasons why passage of the GOP’s network neutrality bill would most benefit consumers:

1. It grants clear authority
2. Avoids legal limbo
3. Checks the power of future FCC chairmen
4. Adds consumer protections well beyond the earlier FCC efforts
5. Flexible, case-by-case enforcement
6. Recognizes the Internet as a global network
7. Preserves a role for the Federal Trade Commission
8. Ends the endless debate

[Downes is a project director at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy]