House Subcommittee to Mark Up Global Internet Freedom Bill

Beginning on Wednesday, April 10, and continuing on Thursday, April 11, the House Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology will begin a markup of legislation making it the policy of the United States to promote a global Internet free from government control.

The bill contains the same language that unanimously passed the House and Senate last year, elevating it to official U.S policy rather than merely a sense of the Congress in light of continued international efforts to regulate the Internet. The bill says that given the Administration's "strong commitment" to the multistakeholder model of Internet governance, and given that there have been and likely will be further attempts to alter that model, "it is the policy of the United States to promote a global Internet free from government control and to preserve and advance the successful multistakeholder model that governs the Internet."