The Internet is perhaps the single most important innovation in the history of the world. It started off as a project of the United States Military, but it was the private sector that made it what it is today, a sea of information, diverse opinion, and entertainment. This revolution in communications, came to be as great as it is today, as all things came to be great, by it being free to become so.

Governments don't bring freedom, governments suppress it. I oppose, in the strongest possible terms, all government intervention in the Internet, including but not limited to , S.773 the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, and the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006.

The freedom to communicate, the freedom to publish our opinions, the freedom to entertain ourselves, and yes, the freedom to win or lose our own money in a poker game, are all important liberties endangered by government intervention.

Far too many "feel good laws" are passed, and for a long time, the Internet was the one place we could be free. This is no longer the case, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 was passed partly in the name of preventing the funding of terrorism, and the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 is being debated under the same disguise. But these things have little to nothing to do with protecting us, they are about power. The continued power grabs by the United States Federal Government must not only be stopped, but reversed, and the complete Freedom of the Internet will be one of my greatest causes.

These acts and others, effect not only the United States, but the world. The nature of the Internet is that it is global, that is in no small part, its very purpose, and part of what makes it so great. In order to ban Internet gambling in the United States, it was necessary for our government to interfere with sites hosted in foreign countries which had no such laws. This is a broad overreach of their authority, both here and abroad.

If elected, I will be one of the most outspoken people in Washington advocating Freedom of the Internet, but in order for me to have that chance, I will need your support.