Commerce Secretary: US Wants Multi-Stakeholder Process To Preserve Internet

Ted_Margaris_Chicago writes The United States will resist all efforts to give "any person, entity or nation" control of the Internet rather than the "global multi-stakeholder communities," said Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker in a Oct. 13 speech. "Next week, at the International Telecommunication Union Conference in Korea, we will see proposals to put governments in charge of Internet governance. You can rest assured that the United States will oppose these efforts at every turn," she said in prepared remarks to an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, meeting in Los Angeles.

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Bullshit ...

[Anonymous Coward]

The US are actively preventing a free and open internet in the name of copyright, and of spying on everyone else on the fucking planet.

Fuck you America, you're so full of shit it isn't funny.

The land of the closely-monitored, and the home of the scared.

Hypocritical douchebag of a country if there ever was.

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[Tom]

The United States will resist all efforts to give "any person, entity or nation"

other than the US, that is. Because we think our laws are applicable world-wide, our jurisdiction covers Earth and we invented the damn thing (ignore that this is only partially true) so get on your knees and thank us.