Secure the Future of the Internet

[Commentary] In 2014, President Obama should pursue policies guaranteeing an open, free-market Internet. Instead of waiting out the international blowback from Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency revelations, the President needs to lead a new strategy against those governments who want to regulate the way the global Internet is run.

This is an important period for the future of global governance, the information economy and what the Internet means for how states relate to one another. If we allow embarrassment from the Snowden revelations to prevent us from taking a proper leadership role, we will not only exacerbate the already considerable damage done to US standing, but we will hand a gift to those who would diminish both US and global democratic interests.