Posted on 09/10/2016 6:30:06 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March
The ICANN fight is heating up and the clock is ticking.
According to Breitbart, Congressman Louis Gohmert, and many others Obama's illegal refusal to renew a contract of ICANN is incredibly dangerous.
'... Sen. Ted Cruz, is shaping up to be a clash between Republican lawmakers and NTIA and ICANN representatives. Events on Thursday helped set the stage — and crank up the volume. Cruz started the day with a floor speech in which he said the planned Oct. 1 handover could cause “significant, irreparable damage” to free speech worldwide.' -- Politico
[more info coming up including an easy-to-understand summary.]
I’m sorry, but I missed your response to my first question.
The fact that you didn’t make any effort to answer it suggests that you may not have the knowledge to understand the power of controlling the domain name system and other technical aspects of addressing. But then again, maybe you do. Again, please share your level of expertise with us as maybe we can all learn something of value.
Why do they a;ll wait until it is probably too late? They have had plenty of time to stop it.
BMK
Always picking the issues people care most about.
Ted Cruz could not have entered the U.S. legally without a CRBA or a U.S. passport, the latter of which was not obtained until 1986.
Special to MaineTV.net, by: Col. Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. USA Reserve Retired
If Ted Cruz was registered as a U.S. citizen at birth, as his spokeswoman claims, then the CRBA must be released. Otherwise, one could conclude that Cruz came to the U.S. as a Canadian citizen, perhaps on a tourist visa or, possibly, remained in the U.S. as an illegal immigrant.
It is the responsibility of the candidate for the Presidency, not ordinary citizens, to prove that he or she is eligible for the highest office in the land.
Voters deserve clarification. Even assuming a CRBA was filed, the weight of the legal evidence indicates that Ted Cruz is a naturalized U.S. citizen because he was born outside of the jurisdiction of the U.S. and obtained U.S. citizenship by an Act of Congress (Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution). As a naturalized citizen, he is not eligible for the Presidency (Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5 of the Constitution).
It is disturbing to this writer that, Ted Cruz, a man who claims to be a "principled conservative" and a staunch supporter of the Constitution, should be so opaque about his personal history and unwilling to release his records.
Does that sound familiar?
Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is a retired colonel with 29 years of service in the US Army Reserve and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. Colonel Sellin is the author of "Restoring the Republic: Arguments for a Second American Revolution ". He receives email at lawrence.sellin@gmail.com."�
Trump mobilizes people and takes direct action.
Okay, I'll bite. Why isn't Trump doing so on this issue, right now?
ICANN? But he can’t be bothered to endorse Trump? Cruz can go to hell.
Cruz is evil, and therefore, we should go ahead and give away the Internet and side with Obama. /s
While I was disappointed with some of the words and actions of Cruz during this campaign, he is not the enemy. He is generally on the right side of important issues and will probably be a consistent vote for Trump’s agenda as president.
They are going to turn over the internet and blackout our election. This is getting scary.
Free range? More like Popeyes.
Maybe he will.
Regardless, Trump has a fight of his own. He’s not in the House or Senate, which is fully controlled by Republicans.
Seemingly, those Republicans have the ability to fix this. Let Trump work on the things he can, when he can.
I have to ask, is there a problem at your place of work or in your home you’d expect Trump to fix, as well?
Bless Cruz for standing up to this. I would think Rand Paul would be too.
I raise it because it's a critical issue, and also a great differentiator to help Trump bust up Hillary's base. There are lots of liberal (male) Hillary voters who wouldn't be able to stand the idea of the UN passing judgment on their online pornography tastes.
I have to ask, is there a problem at your place of work or in your home you’d expect Trump to fix, as well?
Cruz is the one who raised this issue, which apparently sets off your micro-aggression sensor. Don't go all snowflake on us. It's a disincentive to those of us who want Trump to win to have to listen to your emo.
You had me going for a minute there. I was wondering how I managed to miss that speech. You should have been his speechwriter.
Is Esther Dyson still on the ICANN?
It’s a lie to say this is hard to understand. It’s CLEAR-CUT.
Congress ordered Obama to renew a contract with ICANN. They voted a SECOND time for him to renew the contract.
It is illegal for the Executive Branch to ignore either piece of legislation. It exceeds Executive Branch authority. If Obama wants to relegislate our ICANN contract he needs to get that legislation passed, but he never did.
So it’s a High Crime.
Now why is that contract so important?
A ‘Free Range’ ICANN can register domain names of websites any way it likes. It can relocate its headquarters overseas and sign contracts with foreign powers. Then the US can’t touch it. The only thing stopping them is that congract we have them locked into.
Simple as that.
Although, I think the fictitious ‘Trump Speech’ I wrote above is a more fun way to understand it.
‘Bless Cruz for standing up to this.’
A lot of venom here against Cruz. We both have proven ourselves to look past partizanship this year, haven’t we?
That’s because we don’t get suckered into ‘groupthink’.
Here we have paper after paper and the majority of congress concerned about this ICANN contract, and ‘groupthink’ exposes its irrational thought process. I used to call it ‘herd mentality’.
Esther Dyson, for those who don’t know ...
ICANN was incorporated in California on September 30, 1998, with entrepreneur and philanthropist Esther Dyson as founding chairwoman. — wikipedia
She’s lost influence there.
[also on wikipedia ...] As of 2004, she sat on [ICANN’s] “reform” committee, dedicated to defining a role for individuals in ICANN’s decision-making and governance structures.[2] She opposed ICANN’s 2012 expansion of generic top-level domains. [snip]
She has her own website as well.
She donated to ICANN for the purpose of improving competition and freedom on the internet. What a wonderful person.
She still helps ‘start-up’ businesses. A true benefactor, age 65.
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