Two years after President Obama decided to give up U.S. protection of the open Internet, his administration is now considering how to give away power to other governments, most of which want a closed, censored Internet.

In 2014 the administration asked the engineers and developers who run the Internet to come up with a plan to keep the Internet open without U.S. protection. That was an impossible task: The alternative to having the U.S. keep other governments out of the way was always going to be letting other governments...