Your vote will help keep the Internet open for years to come, free from slow lanes and gatekeeping.
Bill Nelson
The Public Record
Bill Nelson is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Senator from Florida from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Florida's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001. Nelson also held the position of Florida's Insurance Commissioner from 1995 to 1999, where he focused on consumer protection and insurance reform.
Mr. President, I would say to the Senator from Massachusetts, Amen. Amen. We can't play around with our national security by holding somebody's legislative ideal as a means of holding up the national security and holding the national…
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I support the multistakeholder model of ICANN. As an institution, it represents one in which the Internet's diverse stakeholders can come together and make sure the Internet remains free, open, secure, and a global network.
I assume that one of your reasons would be you want to decentralize distributed authority structure so as to avoid single points of failure, manipulation or capture.
We have these state actors that are trying to do us in, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran.
Would the Senator believe that if the Department of Homeland Security is shut down that essential personnel will be required to work, but essential personnel--the following--will not be paid? For the first time people engaged in the…
I think if we don't, if we really do, or in between, we shouldn't do things differently at the Moon.





