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It’s nice to have someone looking out for you, even if you didn’t know that you had a guardian angel on your shoulder. For the majority of you, since you’re using some form of internet access to read this, you’ve been protected for the last fifteen years by the Internet Tax Freedom Act. It prevents most state and local governments from taxing your internet access fees. But unless Congress figures out something in the near future, that could all be coming to an end on November 1st. Millions of Americans could be threatened with new state taxes on their Internet...

The U.S. government’s plan to give away authority over the Internet’s core architecture to the “global Internet community” could endanger the security of both the Internet and the U.S. — and open the door to a global tax on Web use. “U.S. management of the internet has been exemplary and there is no reason to give this away — especially in return for nothing,” former Bush administration State Department senior advisor Christian Whiton told The Daily Caller. “This is the Obama equivalent of Carter’s decision to give away the Panama Canal — only with possibly much worse consequences.” The U.S....