October 1 is the date "What they’re preparing to do is to cede, or surrender, the last vestige of American control, or even influence, over what is done with critical functions of the Internet." ... "And for absolutely no good reason, other than people – or countries, I should say, like Russia, and China, and Saudi Arabia, and Iran, and North Korea..." "...but they want to take those freedoms – freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of enterprise – away from us, as well.