ICANN transition protects Internet freedom

[Commentary] From strengthening cybersecurity, to promoting the free flow of information worldwide, to expanding broadband access, the Obama Administration has consistently championed policies to ensure the Internet remains the greatest platform for free expression, innovation, and economic opportunity ever known. Yet just as the United States, our allies, and global Internet freedom advocates prepare to enact a long-term framework to protect the web from government intrusion, some in Congress are threatening to derail this effort. Their claim that President Obama "is giving away the Internet," is a patently false and misleading distortion.

[Penny Prtizkers is the US Secretary of Commerce]