- Via Nextgov: “A top Commerce Department official pushed back Wednesday against concerns that the Obama administration is opening the door to an Internet takeover by Russia, China, and other authoritarian regimes. The fears stem from the Commerce Department’s announcement last Friday that it plans to give the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, an international nonprofit group, control over the technical system that allows computers to connect to Web addresses.” See this statement, Promoting Internet Growth and Innovation Through Multistakeholder Internet Governance via the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and via Pew – What happens to the internet after the U.S. hands off ICANN to others?“
- See also No, Barack Obama Isn’t Handing Control of the Internet Over to China – The misguided freakout over ICANN by Jonathan Zittrain.
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