Freedom fighter Ted Cruz leads charge to keep the internet away from liberal…

Source: Conservative Review | September 14, 2016 | Chris Pandolfo

Freedom fighter Ted Cruz leads charge to keep the internet away from liberal censors

In his opening remarks for Wednesday’s Senate subcommittee hearing on protecting internet freedom, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas (A, 97%) gave a rousing defense of internet freedom, warning that transitioning oversight of the internet to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) could put the freedom at risk.

The danger, Sen. Cruz points out, is that by trading the United States government’s “historic guardianship” of the internet to ICANN, First Amendment protections afforded to the Web will be removed, potentially placing censorship power into the hands of a global, multi-national corporation with limited oversight.

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“It is striking that an organization we are being told we should trust with control of the internet believes that legitimacy depends upon engaging in a regime that is the world’s leading censor on the internet, silencing speech on the internet, and that imprisons democracy and human rights advocate and Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo.”

Cruz warned of an internet run according to the will of China, or other oppressive regimes, and an internet “run like one of our large, private universities today, with speech codes and safe zones,” in which “microaggressions” are censored and banned.

“Now, some will say none of that parade of horribles will happen — there’s nothing to fear here in handing control of the internet to this international group of stakeholders, this mini U.N. Well, that’s what this hearing is here to determine. Is there something to fear?

“And I will point out a question I think a lot of Americans are asking is: Why risk it? The internet right now works. It’s not broken. What is the problem that is trying to be solved here? That’s what this hearing is about as well.”

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  • Consistent September 15, 2016 at 10:26 am #9988

    slhancock1948 September 15, 2016 at 11:04 pm #10004

    Ted has become a real fighter! Even more so than before! hopefully, this will cause many to realize, should we even have a 2020 election, that he is one of the very few who really stand for America, for the Constitution, and for freedom. God bless him! God protect his life and that of his family!

    Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem

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