[daniel1212]

Another sign of the diminishing status of the USA, while the way it is heading now the liberal elite would seek to ban all negative opinions about the effects of homosexual life. And themselves.

But what country would be better? Uganda? Israel?

[sagar]

Why is the gubmint in the internet business in the first place?

[Kenny]

Who exactly gave the Internet away? Was this a one-man job with just Obama or did Congress approve it?

[tet68]

This is insanity, watch them give it to.....the UN.

[gaijin]

“Ghana says THEY don’t like FR and Rush —they gotta go and our hands are TIED...!”

[gaijin]

“US guns means poor Mexicans are getting shot by narco-traffickers —gotta repeal the 2nd Amendment, SORRY..!!”

[ImNotLying]

Only Al Gore can make that decision since he invented it.

[Dallas59]

It's not the control of the internet. No one government controls the internet because it's not something in a box in a vault.
It's who manages and creates domain names like .com or .org. Now, instead of going to the US for domain names, people will go to ICAAN to register a domain name like .panic and .idontknowwhattheinternetis.

[Salvation]

This is upsetting to me. Something about it that just rubs me the wrong way. I guess I can envision how this whole thing could go astray.

[Pox]

Once the “stewardship” is in the hands of those who oppose freedom of speech and free markets, the Internet will slowly fade away into obscurity and be replaced.

This will be an interesting evolution.

[logitech]

This is nothing, but selling of State secrets. Any one involved is a traitor.

The decline has happened.

We are at the bottom of the slippery slope.

What will we do?

[Dallas59]

Before the establishment of ICANN, the Government of the United States controlled the domain name system of the Internet.
The original mandate for ICANN came from the United States government, spanning the presidential administrations of both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. On January 30, 1998, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, issued for comment, "A Proposal to Improve the Technical Management of Internet Names and Addresses." The proposed rule making, or "Green Paper", was published in the Federal Register on February 20, 1998, providing opportunity for public comment. NTIA received more than 650 comments as of March 23, 1998, when the comment period closed.
The Green Paper proposed certain actions designed to privatize the management of Internet names and addresses in a manner that allows for the development of robust competition and facilitates global participation in Internet management. The Green Paper proposed for discussion a variety of issues relating to DNS management including private sector creation of a new not-for-profit corporation (the "new corporation") managed by a globally and functionally representative Board of Directors.[citation needed] ICANN was formed in response to this policy.[citation needed], and manages the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) under contract to the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) and pursuant to an agreement with the IETF.
ICANN was incorporated in California on September 30, 1998, with entrepreneur and philanthropist Esther Dyson as founding chairwoman.
It is qualified to do business in the District of Columbia.
ICANN was established in California due to the presence of Jon Postel, who was a founder of ICANN and was set to be its first CTO prior to his unexpected death. ICANN formerly operated from the same Marina del Rey building where Mr. Postel formerly worked, which is home to an office of the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California. However, ICANN's headquarters is now located in the nearby Playa Vista section of Los Angeles.

[Praxeologue]

This is like ceding ownership of the Panama Canal to an entity controlled by the PRC. It won’t be a problem until it is critical, and then we are brought our knees. China takes Taiwan and suddenly the U.S. Navy finds it is not permitted to transit the Canal. Apple annoys the world by suing Samsung in 100 countries and the domain name apple.com is transferred to an orchard in Brazil. Someday, we will pay dearly for these actions.

[Kevmo]

They should let the World Court be the guv’nin body.

[ronnie raygun]

They realize they cant control it so they will outsource the control. They think we’re stupid, well most are lokk at what we have running the show