Posted on 09/30/2016 5:38:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
Republican attorneys general from Nevada, Texas, Arizona, and Oklahoma are suing the Obama administration in a last-ditch effort to stop the U.S. from giving up control of the internet’s domain name system.
“Trusting authoritarian regimes to ensure the continued freedom of the internet is lunacy,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement. “The president does not have the authority to simply give away America’s pioneering role in ensuring that the internet remains a place where free expression can flourish.”
The AGs … asked a judge late Wednesday to step in and stop the transition to an international oversight body, after GOP lawmakers failed to stall the move as part of a short-term spending bill.
Paxton was among the four Republican AGs who filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas, Galveston Division.
The U.S. government has been in charge of domain names for more than three decades, thanks to a Commerce Department agency's oversight of an obscure, but powerful, Los Angeles-based nonprofit called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
The lawsuit argues that if the transfer takes place, as it’s scheduled to on Oct. 1, people will “lose the predictability, certainty, and protections that currently flow from federal stewardship of the Internet and instead be subjected to ICANN’s unchecked control.”
The suit argues the looming transfer violates the property clause in the U.S. Constitution which prohibits handing over government property without Congress’ approval. The suit also claims the handoff would violate First Amendment rights and says ICANN, the nonprofit owners in control, would be unchecked and could start to censor speech. […]
Republicans in Congress, though, have long-objected to the transfer, which they called a “giveaway” to the rest of the world. They argue that handing over control to a non-government entity would give countries like Russia and China the ability to control online speech – something supporters categorically deny.
The new lawsuit also claims ICANN “has a documented history of ignoring or operating outside of its governing bylaws.”
“Nothing protects the Plaintiffs from additional occurrences of ICANN oversight failures,” the suit says.
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai warned Americans on the “Sean Hannity Show” Wednesday that giving up control to ICANN should be worrisome for anyone who values “free expression and free speech rights generally.”
Did they file an injunction to stop the transfer of the Internet to the NWO / UN / Satan? If they didn’t then all this is, is Kabuki Theater...
Why haven’t the other states joined in?
“Paxton is seeking a temporary injunction to block the government’s decision to do away with the ICANN oversight, arguing Obama is simply giving away U.S. property in violation of the Constitution.”
according to this website http://www.houstonpress.com/news/paxton-seeks-to-save-internet-by-suing-feds-8816163
Meanwhile, Ryan and the “brave” Republicans (who have already told us they’re going to make damn sure that if Trump becomes President he doesn’t rule by fiat and executive order) are busy counting the money they got for turning a blind eye to this.
In the old days, the Establishment's propaganda was unchallenged. The internet has given The People a voice. The Establishment cannot allow this.
Obviously Obama and the Dictators who control the United Nations are particularly opposed to any challenge to the Corrupt Ruling Establishment and the propaganda that empowers it.
If control over the internet is given to the Dictators who control the United Nations, the voice of The People will be silenced, and the Establishment's propaganda will become the only voice heard. This, of course, is the Corrupt Ruling Establishment's plan.
If Texas weren’t around Soros would have already accomplished his mission 4 years ago.
Thanks for the link!
Need to start a rumor that the United Nations has a cafeteria in it that serves BLT sandwiches and breakfast with bacon and pork sausage and does not allow Muslims to enter. Just like to see what might happen....: )
All they can do is ask/argue for an injunction. It’s up to the judge whether or not to grant it.
Hopefully the judge is ethical and doesn't have his judgment clouded when he suddenly get a huge donation from Open Society Foundation or the Human Rights Campaign...
It’s a TX judge, so there’s hope. If he grants the injunction, we will owe a debt of gratitude and more to the Lone Star State.
Or that the grounds upon which the UN is built used to be a pig farm.
Need to remvethe UN from U.S. soil....
Need to remove the UN from U.S. soil....
Well it was nice knowing you Internet and free speech . Tomorrow if the Texas lawsuit doesn’t stop Him Obama will give away control of the Internet to the Muslim (57 Muslim countries) controlled UN. Most countries in the world don’t hold our values of free speech. We the USA controlled the Internet now Obama wants to give it to the UN before Trump gets elected or to fix the election.
How long before the UN Controlled Internet shuts down freee speech on the Internet ? eventually it will happen
This Obama Internet giveaway to the UN is the end of free speech on the Internet.
Sooner or later the 57 Muslim countries are going to take over free speech on the Internet.
Just one way they could do it is threaten search engines like google to put any website like frreerepublic etc that criticize Islam on a blacklist so that no one will be able to find any website that doesn’t conform to the koran (eventually). they could threaten to take away their domain name ,ip address etc.
This is just one way I one little guy can see they can do it. 57 Muslim countries have a lot of money (Saudi etc..) and engineers . I’m sure they will do this and more.
If this happens and Texas lawsuit or Trump doesn’t stop it free speech , freedom , the Internet are over. Islam will dominate the world.
Sure you can create rogue Internets etc. but that takes a lot of money ,expertise and trouble. Google and search engines is what most 99% of people want is convenience and we are busy working don’t have countless hours to devote to some rouge internet. 99% of speech wiil be controlled by dictatorships and Islam. Muslims will not tolerate any criticism of Islam and they are not beyond threatening search engines.. if your site ever criticizes Islam it will be invisible to 99% of search engines . Islam is a cult.
Most of the countries in the world are dictatorships and 57 are Islamic . we would just be 1 out of 200. 57 act as block controlled by Islam. if this happens eventually we are done
I hope they do an injunction is our last hope
Well it was nice knowing you Internet and free speech . Tomorrow if the Texas lawsuit doesn’t stop Him Obama will give away control of the Internet to the Muslim (57 Muslim countries) controlled UN. Most countries in the world don’t hold our values of free speech. We the USA controlled the Internet now Obama wants to give it to the UN before Trump gets elected or to fix the election.
How long before the UN Controlled Internet shuts down freee speech on the Internet ? eventually it will happen
This Obama Internet giveaway to the UN is the end of free speech on the Internet.
Sooner or later the 57 Muslim countries are going to take over free speech on the Internet.
Just one way they could do it is threaten search engines like google to put any website like frreerepublic etc that criticize Islam on a blacklist so that no one will be able to find any website that doesn’t conform to the koran (eventually). they could threaten to take away their domain name ,ip address etc.
This is just one way I one little guy can see they can do it. 57 Muslim countries have a lot of money (Saudi etc..) and engineers . I’m sure they will do this and more.
If this happens and Texas lawsuit or Trump doesn’t stop it free speech , freedom , the Internet are over. Islam will dominate the world.
Sure you can create rogue Internets etc. but that takes a lot of money ,expertise and trouble. Google and search engines is what most 99% of people want is convenience and we are busy working don’t have countless hours to devote to some rouge internet. 99% of speech wiil be controlled by dictatorships and Islam. Muslims will not tolerate any criticism of Islam and they are not beyond threatening search engines.. if your site ever criticizes Islam it will be invisible to 99% of search engines . Islam is a cult.
Most of the countries in the world are dictatorships and 57 are Islamic . we would just be 1 out of 200. 57 act as block controlled by Islam. if this happens eventually we are done
Of course they failed. GOP = Give Obama Power.
“Why haven’t the other states joined in?”
Because this is a non issue. The move just makes official what has been going on for years.
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