No Rush to Judgment on Net Neutrality

[Commentary] A New York Times editorial backs reclassifying Internet service as a telecommunications service because it “would allow regulators to prohibit phone and cable companies like Verizon and Comcast from engaging in unjust or unreasonable content.”

According to the Times, the Federal Communications Commission “wrongly classified broadband as an information service” rather than as a traditional common carrier service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

This may leave the impression that President Barack Obama already has reached the same conclusion, which does not seem to be the case at all. The considerable ongoing analyses by the Obama Administration’s expert advisers and others still represents the sounder approach to policymaking in this complex area.

[Brotman teaches at Harvard Law School]