Is US giving away the internet?

“Internet freedom is now at risk with the president’s intent to cede control to worldwide interests, including countries like China and Russian Federation, which have a long track record of trying to impose online censorship”, said Stephen Miller, Trump’s policy director.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton supports Obama’s planned changeover, “viewing the transition as a critical step towards safeguarding the internet’s openness for future generations”, according to her campaign website.

The move would remove a USA government role that has been described by the Commerce Department as largely clerical. That transition has been long planned and it is an attempt to move the control of one of the central parts of the internet into the global community.

Channeling Cruz’s campaign of misinformation, the release argues: “The US created, developed and expanded the Internet across the globe”.

Donald Trump understands the importance of a free and open Internet and has proven that today by praising those Republicans in Congress for standing up against Democrats who are trying to play politics with Americans First Amendment freedoms. Cruz argues that if the United States cedes control to nonprofit ICANN, it could give countries like Russian Federation and China power over the internet.

“Congress needs to act, or Internet freedom will be lost for good”, Miller added, “since there will be no way to make it great again once it is lost”.

Mueller adds that if the United States does not honor the agreement to privatize these functions, it could lend weight to arguments from nations such as China and Russian Federation that Internet governance should be nationalized or turned over to the United Nations. USA oversight has kept the Internet free and open without government censorship – a fundamental American value rooted in our Constitutions Free Speech clause.

On Wednesday, one of Cruz’s top advisers suggested the US senator is warming up to Trump – the first such signal since Cruz dropped out of the presidential race.

“A global, interoperable and stable Internet is essential for our economic and national security, and we remain committed to completing the almost twenty year transition to the multistakeholder model that will best serve U.S. interests”.

But the thing is, ICANN said it doesn’t have the ability to control content on the internet, meaning those worries could be unfounded. The US has had oversight of the DNS for the past two decades.

President Obama “threw the Internet to the wolves, and they-Russia, China, Iran, and others-are ready to devour it”, the GOP claims.

Since the United States has led the world on the world wide web, Miller says, its Trumps position that it should not be surrendered to the globalists. “The actual flow of traffic, and therefore speech, is up to individual network and platform operators”.

The Republican nominee has been attacked for his approach to the internet in the past.

Previously, when talking about the spread of terrorism and the Internet’s role in indoctrination, he said: “We’re losing a lot of people because of the Internet”. Somebody will say, ‘Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.’ These are foolish people.