[NorwegianViking]

Washington has said it will relinqush some control over the way the network is run and allow foreign governments more of a say in the future of the system.----I would like to know what Washington is giving up.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

—————I would like to know what Washington is giving up. ——————

Answer:

Freerepublic.com

[sauropod]

Everything.

Get with the program bub!

[SaraJohnson]

What we are gaining is: Chinese communist, Canadian and European socialist speech restrictions. Not to mention the speech restrictions of our Muslim brothern in the world.

This is going to be TERRIBLE for freedom but right up the “Progressive’s” ally.

[GQuagmire]

Paragraphs are your friend.....

[dalebert]

jeez why dont we give away our first born

[2harddrive]

While the Internet should never be under the control of ANY loser government(s), free speech was probably LEAST threatened when it was under US control. Now, the political floodgates are OPENED!

[ozark hilljilly]

All your innernets are belong to us.

[JoSixChip]

This is all about the UN getting control of the Internet. World taxes is the net result along with censorship.

[allmost]

But the fresh focus will give other countries a more prominent role in determining what takes place online, and even the way in which it happens – opening the door for a virtual United Nations, where many officials gather to discuss potential changes to the internet.

Virtual UN dictating the Internet. Great.

[JoSixChip]

Can obumber do this on his own without the congress?

[Freeper Fanatic]

Why not? Democrat presidunces have pissed away everything else that was good and important. Panama Canal, Iran, great society, now health care and the internet.

[elkfersupper]

The inventor (Algore) is going to be pi$$ed.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

A far more intelligent solution is for an international conglomerate to form a true alternative to the Internet, that works exclusively by uncensored satellite transceivers. Up links and down links would be carefully controlled so that no government involvement is permitted.

Likely it would piggyback on the Internet as well, but as a means to leech, not upload. This means that the non-data window dressing of the system can be handled by the Internet, with only the restricted information being handled by the satellites.

For example, every part of the Free Republic that was not text would be transmitted on the Internet, and the Satellite would do only the text, and your computer would put the two together.

So all any snoop would see would be the blank FR home page, unless they could tap in to and decrypt the encrypted satellite down link.

As a controlled system, there would be no advertisement or spam, hacking, censorship or surveillance.

Since most of the Internet is “ordinary”, that is where users would spend most of their time. But any time they wanted to discuss sensitive things that others would interfere with, they activate the down link.

[VeniVidiVici]

Thank you National Socialists.

But the fresh focus will give other countries a more prominent role in determining what takes place online, and even the way in which it happens – opening the door for a virtual United Nations, where many officials gather to discuss potential changes to the internet.

Welcome to the Balkanization of the Internet. Where freedom is never a good thing, capitalism sucks, and tinpot dictators are given the same voice as freedom-loving democracies.

[VeniVidiVici]

He added that the changes would prove powerful when combined with upcoming plans to allow web users to use addresses with names in Chinese, Arabic or other alphabets other than Latin...

Why? Let them build their own internet.

[SouthTexas]

multiple experiments going on with countries forking up the internet

[bonehead4freedom]

Best of both worlds for Washington elites political speech has to be controlled so it conforms to International standards and the U S government gets plausible deniability. Hey we don't control the Internet you want to use it then you have to follow International standards!

[Chode]

and America takes another one in the........

[Proud_USA_Republican]

controling the internet was very “arrogant” of us. I’m sure the UN will do a much better job than ICAAN has. /s

[LibWhacker]

Great. We invent it at taxpayer expense. The world (especially the communist and muslim world that never invents anything) wants it and begins whining because we won't give it to them. Obama comes along and hands it (and our 1st amendment rights) over to them on a silver platter.

The greatest tool ever invented that allows, at least in any meaningful way, average Americans to really exercise their free speech rights has just been handed over to the tyrants and thugs at the UN.