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In the wake of NSA spying revelations, a global push to move the United States out of its leading role in overseeing the Internet.In this Wednesday June 13, 2012, file photo, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, President and Chief Executive Rod Beckstrom, speaks on expanding the number of domain name suffixes during a press conference in London. Hundreds of Internet address suffixes to rival “.com” should be available for people and businesses to use by the end of the year, the head of an Internet oversight agency said Monday Feb. 25, 2013. (AP)In this Wednesday June 13, 2012, file photo, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, President and Chief Executive Rod Beckstrom, speaks on expanding the number of domain name suffixes during a press conference in London. Hundreds of Internet address suffixes to rival “.com” should be available for people and businesses to use by the end of the year, the head of an Internet oversight agency said Monday Feb. 25, 2013. (AP)The United States was there early and deep in the creation of the Internet. That put the US in the catbird seat in influencing and overseeing the shape of the Internet. Gave America what’s been called “de facto control” over the global Internet, and encouraged the openness and freedom the US likes to champion as its own values. Then came the flood of reports of America’s big spy agency, the NSA, trampling all over the web. Hacking it to spy all over. And angry international reaction. It’s blazing now. Up next On Point: the new global push to strip the United States of its leadership role in the Internet.
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