The Internet should not be completely free from government interference,...
The Internet should not be completely free from government interference, the Software and Information Industry Association said in a Monday letter (http://xrl.us/boes3g) to the chairmen and ranking members of the House Subcommittees on Communications and Technology; Africa, Global Health, Global…
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Human Rights and International Organizations; and on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade. The letter -- sent before Tuesday’s joint hearing on a bill endorsing Internet freedom from government intervention -- asks recipients to reconsider language in the bill that “might inadvertently appear to endorse the now-discredited view of Internet exceptionalism that exempted the Internet from the reach of traditional territorial governments.” SIIA agrees that the ITU is not the appropriate entity to regulate the Internet and supports multistakeholder models -- such as those at the World Wide Web Consortium or NTIA -- but thinks that “there is an appropriate and context-dependent role for government and regulation of the Internet,” the letter said. The group asked members to revise the bill to include the following language: “It is the policy of the United States to promote a global Internet free from control from non-elected international government entities such as the ITU and to preserve and advance the successful multi-stakeholder model that governs the Internet."