Posted on 08/13/2016 8:23:22 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Media ignore transfer of control of Internet domain names?
A coalition of technology groups and conservatives wants Congress to sue to stop the Obama administration from handing over control of Internet domain names to an international board, charging it could give authoritarian regimes power over the web.
Since 1998, an arm of the U.S. Commerce Department called the National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) has handled domain names. However, in September, the Obama administration plans to allow the U.S. government’s contract to lapse so the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will be run by a global board of directors with the domain-naming responsibility. Many fear this will allow governments such as Russia, China and Iran to have a stake in Internet governance and the “de facto” power to tax domain names and stifle free speech.
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Something else for President Trump to fix.
This is, without a doubt the biggest Freedom grab ever imposed on America, specifically to affect we conservatives.
One more stab at freedom, one more step toward globalism.
I don’t think my opinion of the slimeball infesting the white house can get much lower...
Yep and we allow the media to keep us embroiled in stupid non-controversies.
Trump's wrong about our voice, the Internet is our voice and if it's gone, we've been silenced.
Hope that it gets stopped...very bad.
I’m tweeting this and other articles to everyone I can, Trumps, Ingraham, Dobbs, Hannity. Congress is hiding in plain sight again and if we don’t raise hell, we will lose the Internet.
Oh yeah. Congress will get right on that.
Won’t matter because a Democratic administration won’t do anything about it, and a Republican one will fix it at the root level.
Fixed it. Talk about world class extortion.
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