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

Posted by samzenpus on from the spreading-the-power dept.

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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  1. Nice preaching there by fustakrakich · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's see how the practice turns out. Part of a "free, open" internet is making sure that no one can monopolize the pipe. Government isn't the only evil here. There is plenty of private interest in balkanization. In fact most government regulation is for their benefit.

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  2. Amazing that they think it's theirs to give away by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... or keep. The internet is a network of networks. Any country only controls the parts on its own soil.