Regulating the Internet threatens entrepreneurial freedom

[Commentary] Call it the American Dream 2.0: Four basic principles should guide policymakers, in a bipartisan manner, to preserve America’s leadership role in developing the future of the Internet.

• First, we must abandon the idea of further taxing Internet access and sales.
• Second, we should dismiss all plans to give nations hostile to human rights and democracy more influence over Internet policy.
• Third, we must promote growth in the technological sector, a consistent bright spot for the US economy. But we won’t realize more of that dynamic growth unless we keep the Internet free from the kind of unnecessary regulation that is strangling our health-care, energy and banking industries. And one of the biggest regulatory threats to the Internet is “net neutrality.”
• Fourth, we must recognize that our constitutional rights are digital rights, too. The same commitment to the principles of liberty that made the United States the greatest economic superpower that the world has ever seen must prevail in the virtual world as well.