Rubio warns of UN Internet "takeover"

The Hill ^ | March 11, 2014 | Kate Tummarello

[Biggirl]

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) plans to introduce legislation to prevent a “takeover” of the Internet by the United Nations or another government regime.

Speaking Monday at Google’s office in Washington, the possible presidential contender said he will introduce legislation to codify U.S. support of an open Internet as other countries attempt to control its growth.

“Since the Web is worldwide — and since it has proven such an effective catalyst for pro-democratic revolution — it has become a battleground that many fight to control,” he said.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

OK Rubio, this seems like an issue we can agree on.

Good start.

Shame about your last start. Let’s see if this is different.

[KoRn]

It’s very unlikely that the Internet can be ‘taken over’, or controlled by a central entity. At least not all of it anyway. To even begin to do so would required complicit(co-opted) ISPs and the Root of the DNS. With great effort, you could black out parts of it, but never the entire thing.

For example: Lets say, for the sake of discussion, that the ENTIRE internet were to come under the control of the UN today. By tomorrow/next week, hundreds if not thousands of networks would already be up and running around them. It would be back in no time. Though perhaps not as we know it today. Then again, I could be naive here.

[lavaroise]

The UN loves illegals... hmm.... the UN wants to whet its beak on Internet taxes... and the illegals want to whet their beaks too... so does Rubio... or is he dum?

[VRW Conspirator]

Rubio: Look, squirrel.

[grania]

Rubio looks good except he got to DC thinking he could solve the invasion problem. He got played by Schummer and McCain. After that, he stood by Cruz for his 21 hours and seems to have learned how to be a constitutional conservative.

I don't put Rubio in the backstabber class....the "never forgive" goes to the likes of Ayotte, Flake, McCain, Murkowski, Ryan and others who don't give a damn about the principles that got them elected. I hope he's learned, now that he's been out of FL for awhile, how important it is to constitutional conservatives that invaders get nothing except maybe help paying for a one way ticket home.

Rubio, being Cuban, should get it. We accept Puerto Ricans because they're citizens and have extended the same status to Cubans if they get here and become US citizens. But the invaders? They get NOTHING. Maybe he's ready to articulate that view and take seriously our views.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Will be interesting to see if Rubio’s proposal includes any moves to rein-in the NSA or secure net neutrality.

After the response Rand Paul got at CPAC, I suspect it may.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I just don’t believe Rubio. He may sometimes talk the conservative line, but I think long ago he swore fealty to internationalism.

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/events/2012/4/25%20rubio/20120425_rubio.pdf

And you can either be an internationalist, or you can be an American. The two things are mutually exclusive, no matter how much they swear they can obey two masters.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I wish he would introduce legislation to keep us from being taken over by the entire underclass of Mexico.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Marco was against the UN takeover before he was for it.