Experts Warn Against Internet’s Surrender

During last night’s debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the Internet got only passing mention. That’s deeply regrettable since President Obama is poised at week’s end to surrender control of a function essential to the Internet’s future operations and integrity.

Yesterday, I joined nearly eighty prominent national security and cyber professionals in warning the civilian and uniformed leadership of the Pentagon that the military, our critical infrastructure and the American people could be grievously affected if hostile powers are able to “manipulate or compromise” the Internet.

We concluded: “There is, to our knowledge, no compelling reason for exposing the national security to such a risk by transferring our remaining control of the Internet in this way at this time.” To prevent such harm, the Pentagon’s leaders should oppose this misbegotten initiative – and the Congress must act now to block it.