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The internet is a privately developed and operated innovation, and the government has never played much of a role, except as a user and now, with the Snowden revelations, as a monitor. By its own terms, the common carrier doctrine does not apply, and so there is no basis for the government's instrusive net neutrality rule. The validity of the common carrier doctrine I'll leave for another day, but in preview, I don't think much of it, either.
I'm sure there are some good ideas as how to address the issue, but I haven't heard of many.