Get Congress Out of the Network Neutrality Debate, Please

[Commentary] Now, more than ever, Congress needs to stay out of legislating network neutrality. The trouble with highly technical issues like network neutrality is that they're complicated, and Congress isn't an ideal place to solve complicated — and constantly evolving — issues (unless we let the telco lobbyists write the legislation). Net neutrality isn't a political issue, it's an economic one. The key is ensuring that telecommunications firms don't discriminate against certain kinds of traffic, especially traffic coming over the Internet that might compete with products the ISPs already offer, as well as that folks trying to offer a web-based service don't have to pay a toll to offer it to consumers. The benefits of such openness accrue to consumers as well as to companies trying to build businesses on the Internet.