Simply put we should control it because we built it, we produced it, it is ours. However the looters in US leadership wish to cede that power to the looters in world government (U.N.).

Indeed. Minimal involvement aside from enforcement of property rights and the aforementioned necessities. We do need courts. We don't need overlords.

The UN is collectively corrupt. Some group has to oversee ICAN-the group that oversees domain name disputes between trademark holders and domain name holders among other things.The rest should be open standards. Of course the govt got involved because it insinuates itself into everything. The UN is just another "government" which will screw it up: making it biased, inefficient, and EXPENSIVE

I do not understand why any government should have "control" of it. What does that mean anyway? The only thing government could conceivably do of benefit in this field is to insure consumer protection, by policing fraud and predators.

idiOtic... all part of the larger plan to diminish this nation. Oddly enough how can control be given up when the internet itself consists of tens of thousands of privately owned servers that are managed mostly independently?

This policy works so well on technical calls in India. Watch how quickly things become reliable.

Maybe libertarians can stand up to this leftie strategy and make sure the gov't has control of the Internet. If everyone makes it clear to liberal policy makers that we are watching their votes and want gov't to have slightly more control, I'm sure they'll vote that way.

I saw this too. Typical leftie strategy. Give up control of the internet and the world will like us and think we aren't spying on them any more. I know when I asked for less government control this is not what I meant.