There is no example in the history of the planet that compares with the juggernaut of information technology unleashed by the granting of Internet independence from government control on April 30, 1995. What followed was the stunning success of the thousand-fold expansion of new communication capacity and services.

The Federal Communications Commission would be hard-pressed to identify a similar regulatory success story over the same period. The disconnect from reality only possible inside the Washington beltway nonetheless leads the commission on a path to impose a failed regime of government industrial policy on the Internet.