You’ve heard this from us before, but Matt Sherman puts the facts about regulation and broadband capacity very eloquently:

We cannot legislate new bandwidth into existence. All we can do is to provide as free a playing field as possible, with basic protections (such as property rights and antitrust) at the outer margins. Especially in the case of the technology industry, keeping all possibilities open is the way to maximize progress and truly measure public demand. Prophylactic new laws — beyond the myriad ones we already have — can only slow this down.

The real threat to Internet equality has nothing to do with the fight groups like Save The Internet want to have. The real threat is that the United States lags far behind other developed countries in broadband speeds and many Americans living outside the cities can’t get online any faster than plain old dial-up. Those are the issues that matter, and “net neutrality” is at best a distraction.