{"579041":{"#nid":"579041","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ted Cruz is Trying to Sabotage the Internet\u2019s Governance Transition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMilton Mueller, professor in the Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy, was quoted in \u0026quot;Ted Cruz is Trying to Sabotage the Internet\u0026#39;s Governance Transition\u0026quot; by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EVice.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInternet policy experts say the claims advanced by Cruz and his allies are blatantly false, and amount to political grandstanding that demonstrates a fundamental ignorance about how the internet works, especially when it comes to warnings that Russia, China, or Iran could somehow censor Americans\u0026rsquo; speech on the internet.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;There\u0026rsquo;s no legitimate way for him to get to that conclusion,\u0026rdquo; Milton Mueller, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy and a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/e3f10eae-fa4b-5eb2-bf42-0735bd8360a7\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eleading authority on global internet governance\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/texas\/statements\/2016\/sep\/14\/ted-cruz\/ted-cruz-incorrect-about-obama-giving-control-inte\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Etold PolitiFact\u003C\/a\u003E, which rated Cruz\u0026rsquo;s claims as\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/texas\/statements\/2016\/sep\/14\/ted-cruz\/ted-cruz-incorrect-about-obama-giving-control-inte\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFALSE\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;What he\u0026rsquo;s doing is fear-mongering and trying to create a bogeyman, which is the United Nations.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/internet-takeover-ted-cruz-icann\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2016-09-19 14:32:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:25","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nathan Bowman","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/internet-takeover-ted-cruz-icann","dateline":{"date":"2016-09-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-09-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"543661":{"id":"543661","type":"image","title":"Milton Mueller","body":null,"created":"1465826400","gmt_created":"2016-06-13 14:00:00","changed":"1475895333","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:33","alt":"Milton Mueller","file":{"fid":"90828","name":"milton_mueller.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/milton_mueller.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/milton_mueller.png","mime":"image\/png","size":154193,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/milton_mueller.png?itok=Lmd4bYWg"}}},"media_ids":["543661"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}