Op-Ed in Wall Street Journal regarding US control of internet

There’s a great Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal regarding the importance of the US retaining control of the internet. It is written by Pete DuPont, previous governor of Delaware. Among DuPont’s excellent points:

“Paul Volcker’s recent note on the United Nations Oil for Food scandal taught us a great deal regarding how the U.N. works…

…All of which explains why allowing the United Nations to be in charge of running the Internet is a very bad idea….

…The regimes in China, Cuba, Iran, Syria and Tunisia, for example, believe Internet content must be controlled so that individuals do not have access to any information that has not been approved by their governments. In China the word “democracy” is not allowed on the Internet; it is just too dangerous to the communist government. And so such nations want international controls on Internet usages and content…

…If the U.N. establishment believes free speech is arrogance, we can be confident that U.N. control of the Internet would be calamitous…”

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