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White House Official Calls For Broad Regulations on Internet Use
The Obama administration is having extensive dialogues with countries like China and Iran to encourage their governments to allow Internet freedom.
White House Office of Science and Technology deputy chief technology officer Daniel Weitzner is calling for a broad and flexible regulatory framework for Internet use, leaving the specifics of implementation to the individual industries. "We think the flexibility of having a broad sense of principles but then tuning them to a particular business context is critical, and provides . . . what we think the Internet needs," Weitzner says. He says the U.S. Federal Trade Commission would ensure that industries comply with the broad framework, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's recent set of proposals could act as guidelines for broad Internet regulation.
Weitzner says the basis of the guidelines should fit three main principles. The first involves the large scale of the Internet, which indicates that regulatory structures cannot mimic those in other industries. Second, Internet public policy must accommodate and encourage the speed of the rapidly developing Internet medium. Finally, there needs to be international cooperation in regulating the Web, and global standards to fill the void left by a lack of treaties, according to Weitzner.
The Obama administration is having extensive dialogues with other countries to encourage their governments to allow Internet freedom, Weitzner says.
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