Posted on 08/17/2016 1:16:05 PM PDT by Puppage
The Department of Commerce is set to hand off the final vestiges of American control over the Internet to international authorities in less than two months, officials have confirmed.
The department will finalize the transition effective Oct. 1, Assistant Secretary Lawrence Strickling wrote on Tuesday, barring what he called "any significant impediment."
The move means the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, which is responsible for interpreting numerical addresses on the Web to a readable language, will move from U.S. control to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a multistakeholder body based in Los Angeles that includes countries such as China and Russia.
Critics of the move, most prominently Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, have pointed out the agency could be used by totalitarian governments to shut down the Web around the globe, either in whole or in part.
"The proposal will significantly increase the power of foreign governments over the Internet, expand ICANN's historical core mission by creating a gateway to content regulation, and embolden [its] leadership to act without any real accountability," Cruz wrote in a letter sent to Commerce and signed by two fellow Republicans, Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah.
In the event any facilities are relocated to China, senators noted, they could go in the same building as the agency responsible for censoring that country's Internet. "We have uncovered that ICANN's Beijing office is actually located within the same building as the Cyberspace Administration of China, which is the central agency within the Chinese government's censorship regime," they wrote, noting that some of the American companies involved with the transition process have already "shown a willingness to acquiesce" to Chinese demands to aid with censorship.
"While this is certainly not illegal, it does raise significant concerns as to the increased influence that governments … as well as the culture of cronyism," they added.
Doesn’t. Harms.
Soros behind this one too?
so long pro-Constitution, anti-government & anti-NWO blogospheres
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If Obama is handing off, you can be sure a fumble is coming.
If we lose control over the internet .. I will be gone.
I can use my computer for typing .. and not have to be on the internet. Besides, I talk to my family much more than I e-mail them .. so what’s the big deal.
I can write checks and pay my bills.
I will not be on the internet if our Congress is TOO STUPID AND COWARDLY TO STOP THIS.
The only one fighting to stop it is Ted Cruz. He could resurrect his political career from the dead if he could stop this.
Let me say again. This is a very bad idea.
For America.
5.56mm
The clamp down is coming. Don’t think they’ll monitor what you’re viewing usin software to be able to assign you to a risk category because of what you view online? To think otherwise is just naive.
I’m sure Soros has his wrinkly old hand in this as well. He can taste the victory of defeating America or at least he hopes. He has spent billions trying to destroy us. Why he gave 650 million to BLM alone. Now it is time for him to go to jail. He has maxed himself out.
We have stopped other insane ideas by this government. I plan to call my congressman and senators tomorrow. This should be a major campaign issue.
Like the transfers to Iran and Turkey and al Qaeda,
the miserable, self-serving, remaining EXEMPT,
complicit GOP will do nothing again.
After all, THEY were paid off.
/ heavy sarcasm
Oswald Cruz is planning his family hit on Mr. Trump
for his globalists friends WHO WANT THIS, too.
Scumbag Cruz is on their side, like TPP.
For the elites there is no America. It’s all just one big happy international family.
A agree about Scumbag Cruz but he seems to be trying to stop it. Obama really hates this country freakin Muslim carpetbagger .
Would someone please file a damn lawsuit already?
Congress?
Larry Klayman?
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