Totalitarian governments and those who seek to expand the power and control of government fear the free exchange of information and ideas. The Obama administration is no exception and has long pushed the concept of “net neutrality” which, in the name of giving everyone equal access to the Internet, empowers government to be the traffic cop — in essence putting government toll booths on the information superhighway.
On Thursday, an arm of the Commerce Department, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) decided to turn over total control of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a private non-profit entity which manages important elements of the Internet such as domain naming and IP addresses:
In an announcement Thursday, the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) gave the green light to a plan developed over two years by the internet community to hand control of the critical Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) contract to Californian non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
On the surface, this would appear to be a welcome effort to privatize a former government function, but in reality it relinquishes the U.S. government’s role as the arbiter and guarantor of Internet freedom and turns over full control to a group subject to the anti-freedom impulses of the so-called international community, including the United Nations.
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The Internet is not broken and there is no need to fix it, much less turn it over to a group subject to the whims of foreign dictatorships and those to whom, like Obama, the free flow of information is considered a threat. Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Sean Duffy have recognized this threat and have introduced the Protecting Internet Freedom Act….
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The Founding Fathers wisely provided for freedom of speech and of the press as a means of guaranteeing our freedom and our democracy. The Internet is the new free press and an outlet for or free speech. Ted Cruz agrees with the Founders and is fighting to keep globalists and their organizations from controlling and regulating our access to information via the Internet. If Cruz prevails, we will continue to have access to the truth that keeps us free.
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I'm proud to fight to protect the internet and the amazing engine for economic growth and opportunity it has become: https://t.co/oIlSixBpk5
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) June 14, 2016
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