For example, it's pointed to a study by the Government Accountability Office, a federal watchdog, which concluded that the transition does not wrongly turn over U.S. government property.
Since the 1990s, the U.S. has sought to unwind its influence from the Web’s architecture, arguing that experts from the international community — and not governments, including Washington — should oversee its day-to-day operations.
But the transition of the domain-name system to ICANN gained new momentum in the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s leaks about U.S. surveillance, with the Obama administration eager to avoid criticism from world leaders that Washington has too much power over the internet.
Tech companies have largely supported that plan, which the Commerce Department first announced in 2014. But conservatives on Capitol Hill, led by Sen. Ted Cruz, have argued that by loosening its grip on the internet, the administration will empower the likes of Russia and China and give them a bigger opening to control and censor the web.
Cruz initially sought to block the transfer as part of the Senate’s latest spending deal, hoping to revive a congressional ban on the Commerce Department’s ICANN work from the previous budget. He even enlisted the help of GOP nominee Donald Trump, who chided the Obama administration for risking the future of internet freedom.
But Senate lawmakers, fearing a shutdown, ultimately opted against blocking the internet governance transition as part of a budget deal brokered on Wednesday. The House, hours later, followed suit. Yet House Republicans have not yet decided whether they intend to launch a legal campaign of their own and vote to launch a similar lawsuit against the Obama administration over the internet issue.
Did those wimps in congress find their safe place with coloring books and binkys.They need to be gone!
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So we have to tie it up in courts.
Joy.
All the while this clown can be handing the store over to the UN while some corksucker in a black robe will get around to it in a few months?
Where are Ted Cruz or other so called “conservatives” hiding when this is about to go down in mere hours?
He will do it anyway......Obama doesn’t care what the court orders.....and he and his minions have NEVER been held to account for any of their lawlessness. Defying court orders is no biggie for them.
The media has hidden this Obama giving the
Internet away to dictatorships
any last-minute attempt to abandon it would “hurt the credibility of America in the eyes of the rest of the world.”
If Obama cared about our credibility he would have resigned years ago.
Otherwise our posts may all look like this:
Of course Obama’s Judges will say it’s Unconstitutional to keep it ,they use the Constitution to declare everything Unconstitutional
“And his agency repeatedly has refused some of the claims made in the lawsuit filed Wednesday.”
I presume they meant “refuted” here, not “refused”. But maybe not.
Too damn bad. Most of them doubt our credibility anyway, thanks to obama.
Here are 2 more threads...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3475042/posts?page=1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3474925/posts
They....”contend that the transition, lacking congressional approval, amounts to an illegal giveaway of U.S. government property. They also express fear that the proposed new steward of the system, a nonprofit known as ICANN, would be so unchecked that it could “effectively enable or prohibit speech on the Internet.”
Looks that way to me......ICANN should not be trusted.