Who Controls the Internet? Ted Cruz's Fantasy vs. the Reality

Posted September 6, 2016

External Article: Fusion

Milton Mueller, professor in the School of Public Policy, was quoted in "Who Controls the Internet? Ted Cruz's Fantasy vs. the Reality" by Fusion.

Excerpt:

“Literally, half of them, people like Steve Crocker, Jon Postel, Vint Cerf, went to the same high school in Southern California. They knew each other very well, they trusted each other,” explained Milton Mueller, a Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Public Policy and longtime researcher of internet governance. “They had built something that, obviously, was very important, and they all deserved an enormous amount of credit for their expertise, and for their governance capabilities, in terms of setting up standards organizations. But when [the internet] got so big and so important that conflicts over political power and wealth started coming in, they really resented it.”

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