WE NEED TO START PROTESTING CRAP LIKE THIS

The WaPo coverage of the US decision to relinquish control of ICANN included this bit of garbage:

But former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) tweeted: “What is the global internet community that Obama wants to turn the internet over to? This risks foreign dictatorships defining the internet.”

Newt isn't in office, doesn't have a large following and is not a scholar of the Internet, so why bother citing him?