Silicon Valley’s Biggest Internet Mistake

[Commentary] Silicon Valley is putting its foreign Internet franchise at risk by imagining what happens in Washington DC stays in DC.

Silicon Valley’s net neutrality tunnel vision in America blinds it to the disastrous international policy repercussions of promoting a protectionist industrial policy for Silicon Valley at the Federal Communications Commission, exactly when most other nations are looking for any pretext to justify imposing their own protectionist policies in response to Edward Snowden’s revelations of National Security Agency spying.

[Scott Cleland is Chairman, NetCompetition, and President, Precursor]