news Ted Cruz Op-Ed Houston Chronicle - Congress Must Protect Internet Freedom

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Because the internet was created here in America, the U.S. government has maintained the internet’s core functions to ensure equal access for everyone with no censorship. The government’s role isn’t to monitor what we say or to censor our speech; it is simply to ensure that the internet works properly.

But this could all change. The Obama administration is pushing through a radical proposal to take control of internet domain names and give them to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an international organization that includes 162 foreign countries. If Obama’s proposal goes through, it will empower authoritarian regimes like Russia, China and Iran to potentially censor speech on the internet. These countries are not our friends, and their interests are not our interests.

https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=2808