I'm not trying to make this political but thank you Bernie Sanders. After the success of Bernie's grassroots movement traditional politicians are trying to appeal to the more progressive portion of the population since Trump controls the angry.
This is called Internet Freedom but is not about that. It is about the incredible mess called ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and trying to make sure that the US government can dominate it permanently.
ICANN is the group which made lots of money authorizing the recent innovations in DNS like .xyz and .movie.
While I agree that up to now ICANN and IANA have done their work reasonably well, I wouldn't want them to be under influence of a single geopolitical entity. Then again, I certainly don't want them to be under the influence of all geopolitical entities, and be dragged down to the average of the whole world (like the UN Human Rights Council headed by Saudi Arabia) — we shouldn't aspire to mediocrity if we can set an example by aspiring to greatness.
[1] http://www.thedomains.com/2014/04/02/35-senators-demand-answ...