Kudos to the Rocky Mountain News for this great editorial highlighting the inevitable result from misguided Internet neutrality regulation:

What’s changing [on the Internet] is that bandwidth-sucking content is going online faster than the Qwests and Comcasts can build the room to handle it. It’s as if Hummer owners thought they were entitled to squeeze their behemoths onto traffic lanes that were designed to handle Mini Coopers.

The telcos and cable companies want the Hummer drivers to pay extra and widen the lanes…. But Washington should not spike the concept by mandating net neutrality - or cyberspace is likely to get a lot more congested for no good reason, and with the gridlock only worsening over time.

A few years back, the Net’s intelligentsia spoke of a “bandwidth glut.” No more. Surging data traffic has eaten up available bandwidth, producing bottlenecks that can ruin an online experience.

As The News notes, neutrality regulation will only make things worse for the Net user. And that’s no snow job.