Nine House Republicans said they are seriously concerned about the FTC’s...
Nine House Republicans said they are seriously concerned about the FTC’s participation with international partners in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), in a letter sent Friday to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz. The GOP members said they were alarmed that…
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the FTC is “driving the development of policies and technical Do Not Track standards to restrict online advertising without any formal legal process or Congressional authorization, but rather through informal agency threats.” The letter was written by Reps. Tom Graves, R-Ga., Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., Reid Ribble, R-Wis., Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Tim Walberg, R-Mich., Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., Dennis Ross, R-Fla., and Dan Burton, R-Ind. The members asked Leibowitz whether the Congress had empowered the FTC to participate in such international discussions, how much money the commission had spent on W3C activities, and whether the agency’s actions were consistent with congressional support for Internet freedom, among other questions.