Urge Congress Not To Surrender The Internet To The UN!

by Robert Romano: Yesterday, House and Senate Committee Chairmen John Thune, Chuck Grassley, Bob Goodlatte and Fred Upton sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker urging the Obama administration to reconsider transitioning the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) at the end of the month.

This is the Internet giveaway to foreign powers. You know all about it because you've formed the grassroots that has stopped this surrender of U.S sovereignty the past two fiscal years as Congress has prohibited the use of funds to transfer away the free and open Internet.

But now these courageous Congressmen need to hear your support. Multinational corporate interests that want the U.S. to give away oversight of the Internet to the international community — so they can make more money, naturally, and create a global monopoly over the domain name system — are making one final push to pressure Congress into surrendering your vital Internet freedoms.

Now is the time show Congress that when they do the right thing, you've got their backs. These four members need to hear from you, so please take the time to give them a call and thank them for protecting the free and open Internet and tell them you want them the U.S. to continue overseeing the contract with ICANN, which protects Internet freedom since no government contract can violate the First Amendment. Tell them not to give away oversight under any circumstances!

Here are the members and their direct numbers:Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.): (202) 224-2321

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): (202) 224-3744

U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.): (202) 225-5431

U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.): (202) 225-3761Please be courteous and thank each of these Congressmen for doing the right thing in sticking up for you and protecting the free and open Internet from capture by foreign powers, multinational corporations and maybe even the United Nations!

Tell them not to back down and to stand strong.

With your support, these members will know that the American people are solidly behind them on this issue — and they won't surrender!

Let's keep fighting!
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Robert Romano is the Senior Editor of Americans for Limited Government.

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