Lawmakers will consider new legislation this week to “promote a...
Lawmakers will consider new legislation this week to “promote a global Internet free from governmental control and to preserve and advance the successful multi-stakeholder model that governs the Internet,” said a House Commerce Committee majority staff memo made public last…
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week. The memo circulated ahead of a Feb. 5 joint hearing with three House subcommittees to examine the events that occurred at the December World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT). “This is the time to redouble efforts” with international allies to minimize any harm from the new international regulations on the Internet resulting from the WCIT, the GOP memo said. The joint hearing will be in Rayburn Room 2123 hosted by the House Subcommittees on Communications and Technology; Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade; and Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. Invited to testify at the hearing are: FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, former Ambassador David Gross, Sally Shipman Wentworth, the senior manager-public policy at the Internet Society, and Harold Feld, senior vice president at Public Knowledge.