[caww]

“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.

[GOP Poet]

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[DannyTN]

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.

[DannyTN]

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.

[unlearner]

Obama: the gift that keeps on taking.

[Vaduz]

Obama + Idea = Brain Fart

[FreedomPoster]

Ping

[bk1000]

Obama should be put against a wall and shot.

[Albion Wilde]

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[Billthedrill]

Proponents insisted this power shift was necessary because the world no longer trusted the U.S. to oversee the Internet after the Edward Snowden scandal.

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?