Why Would Obama Risk Internet Freedom? Time For Congress To Step Up
Our “pen and phone” president is at it again.
The Department of Commerce, in a Friday night release, signaled that it was going to give up American control over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which assigns and maintains domain names and web addresses for the Internet.
Ceding control of this key function creates a power vacuum, one that authoritarian regimes (and the U.N., but I’m being redundant) will be only too happy to fill. Here’s what Gordon Grovitz had to say about the issue in The Wall Street Journal: . . .