ICANN posts proposal to end US oversight of Internet
Yahoo The overseers of the Internet on Monday published a keenly anticipated proposal to step out from under US oversight. Under the plan, nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and…
China Pushes to Rewrite Rules of Global Internet
Officials aim to control online discourse and reduce U.S. influence by James T. Areddy • Wall Street Journal As social media helped topple regimes in the…
Don’t Go Soft on the ICANN Handoff
Congress is wrong to take itself out of the game. by Peter Roff • US News & World Report If, as CQ.com reported Thursday, GOP congressional leaders…
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Intellectual Property Rights are Important to Everyone
Or, at least, they SHOULD be! Frontiers of Freedom has long been a leader in protecting property rights. Our Constitution provided for property rights for physical property and for intellectual…
Why Is ICANN Hiding The Solution To Its Accountability Problem?
By Peter Roff • The Daily Caller The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – once an obscure nonprofit that was ostensibly important just to…
Halfway to Wrecking Internet Freedom
To forestall censorship by authoritarian governments, the White House must renew the Icann contract. By L. Gordon Crovitz • The Wall Street Journal We’re at the…
Liberals on FEC Move to Regulate Internet Campaigns, Blogs, Drudge
by Paul Bedard • Washington Examiner In a surprise move late Friday, a key Democrat on the Federal Election Commission called for burdensome new rules on…
Policy Backgrounder: Ensuring a Free Internet – ICANN Transition Moving in the Wrong Direction
by Jared Smith Overview When the United States Government announced its intent to forfeit its historical role of providing oversight for the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS), it did so…
China unrest and the future of the open internet
by Peter Roff • Washington Times Many of those watching the pro-democracy demonstrations underway right now in Hong Kong are concerned, appropriately, about the impact they will have…
If You Like Your Internet, You Can Keep Your Internet. Actually No!
by George Landrith • Townhall Late one Friday afternoon, the Obama Administration announced its plans to cut the Internet loose from U.S. government oversight, giving control to the…
World Wide Principles for the World Wide Web
by Horace Cooper • Politix Last spring the White House announced that it would go forward with an effort to relinquish all American oversight over the operation…
Is a Big New Tax Coming to Your Internet Bill?
by Phil Kerpen • American Commitment Since 1998 it has been prohibited by federal law for states and localities to tax Internet access. This policy, known…
We Need Stronger Oversight Of ICANN
by Peter Roff Whoever controls the Internet may control the future of global commerce. As more and more commercial platforms are developed, commerce is moving from Main Street into cyberspace…
Why impose a 1908 “First Sale” Rule on a Modern and Evolving Internet-based Marketplace?
“Copyright law has historically protected the right of the creator to exclusively distribute their work. This is important because it gives creators the ability to profit from their creation which…
Stop Obama From Surrendering the Internet
The House is trying to block an Obama plan to cede control of the Internet. by Peter Roff By a vote of 229 to 178, the U.S. House of Representatives…