Network Neutrality: We're Still Waiting

[Commentary] Exactly a year ago, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski made a major promise to deliver on Network Neutrality. "If we wait too long to preserve a free and open Internet, it will be too late," he told an influential audience in Washington. We're still waiting.

Instead of doing what's right for Internet users, Chairman Genachowski has dodged, dithered and delayed. But it's not too late to turn things around. And Genachowski's legacy as chair of the FCC -- either as a champion of openness or as a toothless bureaucrat -- rests on what he does now. He can make a decisive and principled move to protect Net Neutrality and be remembered as a hero of the Internet, or he can continue to waffle and be remembered as the FCC head who stood idle as our online freedoms were handed over to the likes of AT&T, Comcast and Verizon. He needs to decide, and soon.

[Karr is campaign manger for Free Press]