{"580481":{"#nid":"580481","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Don\u0027t Believe the Claims That the U.S. is Giving Away the Internet","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMilton Mueller, professor in the School of Public Policy,\u0026nbsp;was quoted in \u0026quot;Don\u0026#39;t Believe the Claims That the U.S. is Giving Away the Internet\u0026quot; by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMIT Technology Review\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe argument, championed by Cruz, that the transition will cede control to foreign governments is \u0026ldquo;the opposite of the truth,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.internetgovernance.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IGP-transition-comments.pdf\u0022\u003Eaccording to\u003C\/a\u003EMilton Mueller, a professor of public policy at Georgia Tech and cofounder and co-director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.internetgovernance.org\/\u0022\u003EInternet Governance Project\u003C\/a\u003E. The purpose of ICANN, which Mueller helped create, is to keep Internet governance out of the hands of governments, he says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMueller adds that if the United States does not honor the agreement to privatize these functions, it could lend weight to arguments from nations such as China and Russia that Internet governance should be nationalized or turned over to the United Nations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/602411\/dont-believe-the-claims-that-the-us-is-giving-away-the-internet\/\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":"2016-09-21 13:23:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:25","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"DDR (Disarmament","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/602411\/dont-believe-the-claims-that-the-us-is-giving-away-the-internet\/","dateline":{"date":"2016-09-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-09-20T00:00:00-04:00","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"}],"categories":[],"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":""}}}