Jerry Berman
Jerry Berman
Center for Democracy & Technologyis a Washington, D.C.-based 501non-profit organization whose mission is to promote an open, innovative, and free Internet...
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There is concern by us and certainly by many others that this board is subject to capture. There is concern that it's subject to capture by a small group of corporations, to a country, to an advocacy group bent on changing the way the Internet works for its own purposes.
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The Internet is going to be a legislative issue in every Congress from now on,
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If you want the Internet to come into your country, you're going to have to live with some of its openness, ... You can't bureaucratize it.
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The goal is to educate policy makers about the Internet as a technology, ... We need to explain to policy makers what these issues are.
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The commercial, free speech, educational potential of the Internet will be stifled, but we still won't have solved the problem of protecting children from pornography.
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These resources have always been available, (and) they're getting more and more diverse. But they've never been made available at one site ... and they've never been made available at every entrance point to the Internet.
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Privacy is high on the list of bipartisan bills with support in both houses. There is a chance to do something that is both bipartisan and balanced.
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I want a face-to-face debate, ... Let them go at it.
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We have tools out there which are 100 percent available.
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but there is potential serious collateral damage to our Constitution and civil liberties in the attorney general's bill.
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There is opportunity for moderation and for deadlock. Deadlock is a disaster because the states are ready to roll, and then companies will have to deal with a crazy patchwork of privacy laws.
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We think this statute will be struck down. There are less restrictive means to protect children such as blocking and filtering tools which are the only solutions with a global Internet.
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They try to get a seat at a lot of tables to have a dialogue, and they do spend money.
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There's broad consensus that ICANN hasn't worked. We need to ask: Do we need this beast?