[BellStar]

"The surrender of the Internet will spell disaster for our nation, financially, as well as for safety, security and our standing as a great power that values freedom and the free exchange of ideas and information."

[BellStar]

OMG!

[Red Steel]

Obama’s attack on the United States continues. If the world takes over this Internet and censors it, American ingenuity will build a separate net.

[April Lexington]

The Internet came into being because of the genius work of Americans Dr.Robert E. Kahn and Dr. Vinton G. Cerf.

This article is total BS. Everyone knows Al Gore invented the internet!

[Tzimisce]

Censorship is coming to the internet.

[Pinkbell]

He’s so worried about offending other nations, but he doesn’t care if he hurts the country he is President of.

[greeneyes]

Let those international dudes set up their on system and leave what we have alone.

[Solitar]

Do you feel like a rational person in Russia in 1910 felt?

[LucyJo]

The door was opened a long time ago:

United States cedes control of the internet - but what now? - Print Review of an extraordinary meeting

[papasmurf]

The article tells us nothing. What, exactly, is the “plan”? I mean, we already know that 0bama and his ilk have allowed foreign entities on the board at IANA, but, what else is he doing? That’s what I’d like to know.

[celtic gal]

In our spam today we got our first spam email from of all places Russia in the Russian script..could not read it, it didn’t have a virus..I think it was one of those Nigerian style scams..the format had that look about it but the letters were not in an alphabet anyone would understand other than a Russian or Greek or one of those languages.

[Boucheau]

Calm down, they’re only one-world communists. No need to panic.

It will all be over soon, and then you won’t have the burden of all this “freedom” business.

Then begins the process of getting used to your new masters, that’s all.

Tyranny is not that bad, folks, relax. Millions have survived it.

This is not a big deal.

I mean, there is a REALLY good chance you and your family will survive the new World Government’s plans for this nation.

Behave normally. Do what you normally do and just chill the heck out.

/s

[DoughtyOne]

We’ve been headed in this direction for some time. I know because I’ve been angry about it for years.

What bothers me is that when previous administrations were headed in this direction, the objections were quite muted.

[Rocky]

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

1. He gave away control of our internet.

[raybbr]

ping

[fivecatsandadog]

Stocks will take a dump -—— AGAIN
Everything we do is connected to the internet. This insanity has to stop NOW.

[Biggirl]

The seeds of a new civil war being planted.

[Nateman]

The INTERNET is the greatest asset to individual liberty ever created. No wonder RATS are working to kill it.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395144/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362861/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353887/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352963/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2297382/posts

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362861/posts

The US lets go of the internet – will anyone notice?
NewScientist ^ | October 13, 2009 | Gareth Morgan
Posted on October 15, 2009 12:04:24 AM PDT by bogusname

POLITICAL power is rarely ceded without good reason. So eyebrows were raised last week when the US Department of Commerce decided to relax its grip on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body responsible for the naming system that ensures that when you type a web address, your browser knows where to go. In future, governments and other international organisations will be able to nominate staff to sit on one of ICANN’s three newly created steering committees, something the DoC had resisted for years. “What it really means,” says ICANN’s chief executive Rod Beckstrom, “is that we’re going global.”

(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...

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http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/101309_ICANN_Names_Three_New_GNSO_Council_Members

“ICANN Names Three New GNSO Council Members”
Tags: government appointments ICANN domains
By Justin Lee, October 13, 2009

SNIPPET: “(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet regulation body ICANN (www.icann.org) announced this week it has named three individuals to serve as non-commercial stakeholder group representatives on the new Generic Names Supporting Organization Council at its September 30th board meeting.

The appointees include Mohammed Rafik Dammak of Tunisia, Rosemary Sinclair of Australia and Debra Hughes of the United States.

The board’s structural improvements committee reviewed the applications from a range of volunteers before recommending to the full board three candidates to serve on the GNSO Council for the next two years.

The newly appointed individuals were recommended by the SIC based on their skills, experience, background, knowledge, passion and ability to help build non-commercial participation and contribute to the work of the GNSO.

The committee paid particular attention to the candidates’ ability to contribute to diversity of geographic representation on the council.”

7 posted on October 15, 2009 12:19:37 AM PDT by Cindy

[The Duke]

I think this is a great idea.

And, in the meantime, a new USANet will spring up that is exclusive to the US and uses all the same protocols and network infrastructure.

Obama must really be upset that Jimmy Carter beat him in giving away the Panama Canal.

[ShadowAce]