[walid]

Cruz fighting for internet freedom, Obama expanding social welfare after cutting it, Clinton fighting for healthcare and minimum wage.

I'm not trying to make this political but thank you Bernie Sanders. After the success of Bernie's grassroots movement traditional politicians are trying to appeal to the more progressive portion of the population since Trump controls the angry.

[dsr_]

Remember that the name of a given legislative act is generally unrelated, or sometimes diametrically opposed, to the actual intent.

This is called Internet Freedom but is not about that. It is about the incredible mess called ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and trying to make sure that the US government can dominate it permanently.

ICANN is the group which made lots of money authorizing the recent innovations in DNS like .xyz and .movie.

[pilsetnieks]

Eh, the very first paragraph dispels that notion. It's not fighting for Internet freedom, it's fighting for freedom of the Internet to be controlled by Americans.

While I agree that up to now ICANN and IANA have done their work reasonably well, I wouldn't want them to be under influence of a single geopolitical entity. Then again, I certainly don't want them to be under the influence of all geopolitical entities, and be dragged down to the average of the whole world (like the UN Human Rights Council headed by Saudi Arabia) — we shouldn't aspire to mediocrity if we can set an example by aspiring to greatness.

[wildmusings]

All governments and bureaucracies suck. Let's keep the internet in the hands of the one that has the strongest legal commitment to free speech and due process. Not even European countries, with their narrower and more nuanced conceptions of free speech, are fit for this purpose.

[briandh]

Cruz and other Republicans have been raising concerns over this matter for over two years now [1]. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Sanders.

[1] http://www.thedomains.com/2014/04/02/35-senators-demand-answ...