Government blocking access to content and stifling free speech," she said "The future of the internet is the future of everything," said Rossenworcel.
AT&T's CEO, Randall Stephenson, says he does not anticipate government blocking the acquisition, which the company says is expected to go through by the end of 2017.
While plans for reform have been shelved, the House of Lords could still be threatened with having some powers taken away if it insists on carrying on rebelling against the government, blocking proposals and making moves against Brexit.
"We get a lot of feedback from people who use it to get access to blogs and sites they can't access because of a firewall," she said, referring, for example, to a government blocking access to Twitter.
Google, eBay and Yahoo, not to mention social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, have all struggled there, because of strong domestic competition as well as government blocking and censorship.
The first is that small, increasingly partisan groups wield vetoes over the federal government, blocking it from moving forward or back except in exceptional circumstances, such as economic crisis or war.
