Be Wary of Internet 'Governance'

[SOURCE: USAToday, AUTHOR: Tony Mauro]
[Commentary] When the Supreme Court in 1997 declared in Reno v. ACLU that the Internet deserved the protection of the First Amendment, it compared the medium to the town crier of colonial days. Anyone with a computer and a modem can broadcast a message worldwide, the justices said with admiration. As the summit in Tunis begins, that should be the central image in delegates' minds: fostering the proliferation of digital town criers worldwide, not turning laptops into lapdogs.
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