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Berners-Lee: Ted Cruz Wrong About How Free Speech Is Censored on the Internet

By CircleID Reporter
  • September 20, 2016, 2:54 pm PDT
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“Sen. Ted Cruz wants to engineer a United States takeover of a key Internet organization, ICANN, in the name of protecting freedom of expression,” said Tim Berners-Lee and Daniel Weitzner in a co-op piece today in the Washington post: “[T]he misguided call for the United States to exert unilateral control over ICANN does nothing to advance free speech because ICANN, in fact, has no power whatsoever over individual speech online. ... There is no international law or treaty that calls the Internet into existence or forces everyone to use the same standards and technology. Rather, it is a voluntary effort of people around the world. ... ICANN is no ‘mini-United Nations.’”

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