Republicans want to keep big government away from your Internet

While other more controversial policies may be getting most of the attention at this week’s U.S. Republican Party convention in Tampa, Gratt Gross of PC World reports party delegates also approved a platform plank related to Internet freedom:

Delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, approved on Tuesday a platform that embraces private-sector autonomy on the Internet and opposes efforts to move Internet governance from the current model to the United Nations or other international organizations.

“The Internet has unleashed innovation, enabled growth, and inspired freedom more rapidly and extensively than any other technological advance in human history,” the platform reads. “Its independence is its power. The Internet offers a communications system uniquely free from government intervention.”

(Click here to read “US Republicans back Internet ‘freedom’“)

Internet freedom activists hope to see the Democratic Party also address Internet freedom at its convention next week. The situation is a bit bleaker in Canada, where the Conservative government seems poised to move ahead with Bill C-30, its controversial Internet surveillance legislation that privacy advocates have attacked for overreach. While opposition parties have raised issues with the Bill, the government’s parliamentary majority means it’s likely to be passed into law.

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Jim Love, Chief Content Officer, IT World Canada

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Jeff Jedras
Jeff Jedras
A veteran technology and business journalist, Jeff Jedras began his career in technology journalism in the late 1990s, covering the booming (and later busting) Ottawa technology sector for Silicon Valley North and the Ottawa Business Journal, as well as everything from municipal politics to real estate. He later covered the technology scene in Vancouver before joining IT World Canada in Toronto in 2005, covering enterprise IT for ComputerWorld Canada. He would go on to cover the channel as an assistant editor with CDN. His writing has appeared in the Vancouver Sun, the Ottawa Citizen and a wide range of industry trade publications.

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