Last week we pointed to a wise Denver Post editorial about the Internet future debate, and now we’d like to point you to cross-town rival the Rocky Mountain News for a great editorial showing how quickly the Internet landscape changes.

Remember a few years ago when TIME had AOL’s CEO on the cover with the headline, “Surprise! AOL Wins”? Some victory. As The News notes, AOL has now lost a third of its subscribers, which has forced the company to give away its formerly $24/month service free.

The last time a company had a victory like that was when Ford introduced the Edsel. But The News uses AOL’s lesson to put the so-called Net neutrality push in its proper context:

“Congress is grappling with ‘net neutrality,’ regulations that would prevent the builders of new high-speed data infrastructure from charging higher rates to the users of this new, super-fast pipeline.

“We have no idea whether investors will endorse the concept of having media companies pay part of the cost of adding new lanes on the information superhighway. But Washington should not foreclose that possibility - just as regulators in most instances should not micromanage a dynamic marketplace that listens and reacts to consumer desires.”

Translation: The Internet is evolving just fine, thank you, and lawmakers have no reason to begin tying it down with red tape and bureaucracy.