Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., urged Senate leadership to support...
Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., urged Senate leadership to support the free and open Internet by passing legislation that solidifies U.S. policy against international governance of the Web. Bono Mack’s plea came in a letter sent Tuesday to Majority Leader…
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Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Congress must act quickly to prevent the ITU from enacting changes to the International Telecommunications Regulations that could subject the Web to international governmental control, the letter said. “If we are not vigilant those changes could set back the remarkable social and economic advances that the Internet has facilitated throughout the world,” Bono Mack said. In August the House voted 414-0 to pass H.Con. Res. 127, which urges the NTIA director and the State Department coordinator for international communications and information policy to continue to advance “the consistent and unequivocal policy of the United States to promote a global Internet free from government control and preserve and advance the successful multi stakeholder model that governs the Internet today.” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., introduced the Senate counterpart to the House resolution in June (http://xrl.us/bni6jb).