ITU Shouldn't Handle Internet Governance Matters, Say House Lawmakers
House lawmakers cautioned against handing over Internet governance regulations to the ITU, while affirming their commitment to the multistakeholder model, in an essay on the Re/code site last week. House Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., ranking member Henry Waxman,…
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D-Calif., and member Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., signed the essay, along with House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif. “Many countries joined the U.S. in recognizing that multi-stakeholder governance will ensure the resilience of the Internet, and enable commerce and economic development,” it said. “They are increasingly seeing the self-interest and incentives of resisting an ITU-centric model, because it could empower countries to censor the free flow of information and suppress dissent, as well as stifle broadband investment in both e-commerce and network infrastructure.”