Posted on 04/16/2018 9:08:43 AM PDT by caww
If you think Facebook has problems, they’re nothing compared to the fiasco at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Americans should be far more alarmed about what’s happening with the obscure, private California company that oversees the Internet’s backbone.
"ICANN’s " gross mismanagement of behind-the-scenes technical operations threatens the security, interoperability, and openness of the entire Internet, industry experts warn. Unlike the Facebook situation, however, there may not be much lawmakers can do.
President Barack Obama paradoxically decided ICANN was better off without any government intervention. ICANN now has absolute control of key Internet infrastructure and answers to no one.
As was forewarned in a Washington Examiner column, absolute power has corrupted ICANN absolutely. The Internet is drastically changing for the worse under its stewardship. And the transfer likely can't be reversed, concede advisers for President Trump, who campaigned against it.
ICANN’s core values have been compromised since it’s no longer subject to U.S. jurisdiction and the First Amendment.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
“ICANN lost 99 percent of its spine when the U.S. relinquished control over it. It now lost the remaining 1 percent,” observed industry analyst Theo Develegas of Acroplex.
So, what was the point of Obama’s initiative, again? It turns out, if you like your Internet the way it is, you can’t keep it.
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I don’t buy that it can’t be reclaimed.
Just change the way America does it, and the rest of the world will follow.
I don’t buy that it can’t be reclaimed.
Just change the way America does it, and the rest of the world will follow.
Obama: the gift that keeps on taking.
Obama + Idea = Brain Fart
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Obama should be put against a wall and shot.
...”Just change the way America does it, and the rest of the world will follow”.....
You think business and industry would actually go to the expense of doing that?.I doubt it.
Yep...out of office but in no way out of full swing operations.
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ICANN is not the full name,I think. They left off the “OT” on the end of it.
Not before he gets about a month’s worth of caning.
They upgrade technologies often enough, just make it part of the next upgrade. Make it IP7. Then announce that you are going to obsolete the others in a couple of years.
Not before he gets about a month’s worth of caning.
More accurately, proponents accused the United States of running the system to its benefit, largely because that's what they'd do given the chance; and that the whole thing would be best put in the safer hands of internationalist bureaucrats who presumably would not. True to form, it became the raw materials for empire-building and now is in dire need of - surprise! - quite a bit more money.
An Alternet built by the Russians and the Chinese seems like a pretty dark joke - these are, after all, the builders of the Russian Business Network and the progenitors of more viruses than an Ebola ward. That is the sort of threat that makes politicians and journalists mutter darkly and sends the techies off screaming with laughter. Can the Jeffry Dahmer Cooking Show be far behind?
NO! Hanged!
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