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Internet & Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control (Spring 2019)

“Ted Cruz: We Must Keep the Internet Free” (2016)

In this video, Senator Cruz frames the United States’ transfer of control over the DNS system to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as a threat to free speech and national security. How does the vision of the internet Senator Cruz lays out in this video compare with those presented in the other readings assigned this week?