On 9/23, The Hill’s Jennifer Martinez covered the upcoming battle over internet regulation. The debate centers around the upcoming World Conference on International Telecommunications, where nations like China and Russia may make a play to give the UN greater control over the Internet. The U.S. prefers a multi-stakeholder approach where “various organizations . . . oversee the management of the Internet.” The Hill article quoted U.S. Ambassador Terry Kramer on the WCIT and internet regulation:
If there are things that are completely objectionable, that violate our fundamental views about human rights, about free speech, about economic opportunities–if they fundamentally violate it–then we will just say no and absolutely we won’t proceed . . .
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Ask yourself, ‘Who’s going to be able to best solve that problem?’ Our view is multi-stakeholder organizations that have technical expertise, they’re distributed throughout the world and they’re at the end of the day agile organizations . . .
You can find The Hill source article here.
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