Gee thanks for trolling the thread...
There have been numerous articles written on the subject that have been posted here on multiple threads that refute your position, so perhaps you should do some more research or just let us be active on this issue without your snark comments like being an ignorant democrat. So helpful...NOT
Congress has prevented this move for at least 2 years, so let’s encourage them to prevent this transfer once again until we have a President who actually believes in the sovereignty of the United States.
And you, nor anyone else can cite a real risk.
ICANN is a menial, administrative function. And the repository for the name resolutions of record.
If they remove an entity from the database of record for any nefarious purpose the Internet will explode into multiple national fragments...something the big companies will not allow under any circumstances.
I'll say it again, only the ignorant who don't know how the Internet works fear this. That includes the US Congress.
What is the refutation you reference?
When Grassley, Sessions, Cruz, Mike Lee, and Gohmert are in agreement about something the only reason why they would be ignored is due to influential and DECEITFUL lobbyists:
ICANN’s Secret Plot: rigged oversight, designs on .mil, $2.5 mil in lobbying
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3471830/posts