How do you solve a problem like the Internet? Not net neutrality.

[Commentary] The Internet doesn’t look like a system that needs a lot of help from bungling regulators or their political allies. It works, it improves, it reaches everyone, and it pleases billions; the strongest case that can be made for any regulatory approach is the promise of more of the same.

It’s therefore surprising that the President of the United States and the Federal Communications Commission Chairman he nominated each have proposed to change the Internet’s legal status in different ways while claiming the changes they propose will simply preserve the status quo. They’re both responding to fears, some fact-based and some not, to the effect that the Internet we experience in the US isn’t all it could be. This statement is true because the Internet hasn’t finished improving: plenty of ideas haven’t been fully formed, untold numbers of applications haven’t been developed, and some of the best that have are yet to go mainstream. Rather than continue the never-ending net neutrality squabble, it would be more beneficial for the nation and indeed the world to get to work on remedies for the historical features than make the Internet less welcoming than it should be to the next generation of applications. This particular status quo need not be preserved.