Title II for broadband is desperate and ill-conceived

Julius Genachowski is in a hurry.

He is arguing that the commission must act quickly to "restore the longstanding deregulatory—as opposed to 'no-regulatory' or 'over-regulatory'—compact" that governed broadband Internet access services prior to a recent court decision.  Such an approach is urgently needed to "restore the status quo," he claims.

If the Federal Communications Commission cannot regulate the Internet, it may die.   The telephone and television industries are declining, whereas...