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Hopefully, the net neutrality controversy will be retired—by courts or by Congress—before it does much damage to the Internet services and infrastructure sectors and before it enters a fourth decade.

The ultimate formulation of the Federal Communications Commission's 'nondiscrimination on the Internet' principle could have a significant impact on economic welfare and on innovation. In this article, we explain the economics of discrimination as it applies to the Internet, and we offer a new approach for identifying anticompetitive discrimination. Our proposal would require a complaining content provider to prove (i) the broadband service provider has discriminated in favor of some affiliated content provider that is 'similarly situated' to the independent content provider; (ii) such disparate treatment is based on affiliation and not on some other consideration; (iii) the independent content provider has been unreasonably restrained in its ability to compete; and (iv) the harm it suffers as a result of the discrimination would likely redound to the harm of broadband users. Adapted from the source document.

In the mid-1990s, when the Internet began to burgeon in China, many thought that the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would finally come to an end. The combination of foreign capital and trans-border information exchange promised a potential influx of democratic ideas and ideals. The CCP responded with both physical and regulatory limits on the use of the Internet by the Chinese people. Some commentators characterized these limits as feeble attempts by the CCP to control a nebulous medium. Others viewed the limits as ineffective steps by the government to become a highly developed authoritarian state. This Note posits that the CCP seeks to do neither. Instead, the CCP's goal is simple: to reap moderate economic benefits while retaining political power. By regulating how Chinese businesses and individuals use the Internet, the CCP retains political power despite the globalizing effect of the Internet. It does this by dominating the Internet economy and monitoring information exchanges to suppress political insurgency, while deriving economic gain from Internet development. Viewed in this light, economic and informational regulations are very much a success for the CCP.