Why Genachowski's network neutrality proposal is best

[Commentary] The bottom line is that the network neutrality order up for vote would be a consumer win, as it:

• Protects an open Internet and prevents against discrimination of content.
• Enables reasonable network management to protect consumers against privacy and cybersecurity concerns, as well as support the business of providing and consuming if more robust online experiences, in terms of performance and capacity demands.
• Supports continued innovation and investment in communications technologies, facilitating broadband access improvements and network upgrades, as well as adding related American jobs.

We must look past the smoke and mirrors of the doomsday hypothetical's being thrown around by extreme proponents of reclassification of the Internet. The "what if" and "imagine this" scenarios are doing nothing but harming a best resolution of this complex issue, which lies in compromise.

[Jorge Bauermeister is a former commissioner of the Puerto Rico Telecommunications Regulatory Board and a former member of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' (NARUC) Telecommunications.]