Posted on 09/14/2016 5:46:06 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March
One expert witness, Paul Rosenzweig, predicts fireworks during the First Panel:
"I will be testifying as well, but on the second panel—the fireworks will be on the first panel, I'm sure."
The first panel will include many in favor of multinational oversight for ICANN, and the questioning will likely get hot.
While many in congress trust President Obama's plan, Paul Rosenzweig noted: "The Chairmen of the four relevant committees (Senate and House, Judiciary and Commerce), however, have called for the administration to reconsider its decision."
** Get that -- ALL FOUR chairmen [who are most informed about the controversy], and yet a few RINOs act as sand in the gears to help the democrats farm out internet oversight to some global organization. **
While the Second Panel might not be as fiery I hope to obtain a transcript of Paul Rosenzweig's testimony.
His articles in Heritage have been published all the way back to 1977. He's one of those wicked-smart kind of guys who Wikipedia frequently mentions and yet I can't find a page in Wikipedia that covers his bio. [Do they fear his intellectual firepower that much?]
He's been deep in Homeland Security and Cyber-Security for a long time.
[I'll post more in-depth about him in a followup post.]
Relevant to this hearing, he wrote:
Cyber Warfare: How Conflicts in Cyberspace are Challenging America and Changing the World and of two video lecture series from The Great Courses, Thinking About Cybersecurity: From Cyber Crime to Cyber Warfare and The Surveillance State: Big Data, Freedom, and You.
He is also a co-editor of two other relevant books:
1. Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media: The First Amendment and National Security.
2. National Security Law in the News: A Guide for Journalists, Scholars, and Policymakers.
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What Paul Rosenzweig thinks:
He's suggesting a compromise: a trial period to see how things work out before permanently releasing ICANN to international control. He's also been offering suggestions in the planned 'accountability' process which Obama plans.
So Rosenzweig is an insider. And this is his opinion:
He and other insiders suggest caution.
"There are many unanswered questions that, in my view, need answering before the transition takes place." -- Paul Rosenzweig
[more research coming up]
Who is Paul Rosenzweig?
He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security.
And he currently leads a team that continues to consult Homeland — founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC, a homeland security consulting company.
He is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Homeland Security Studies and Analysis Institute.
You could imagine his formal education, which is impressive. He participates in the Lawfare Blog for those who are curious.
[I can load that website’s ‘text only’ google caches which is how this thread got started.]
In 2011 he was a Carnegie Fellow in National Security Journalism at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, where he now serves as an Adjunct Lecturer.
Who will be at the ICANN Hearing ...
NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling
ICANN CEO and President Göran Marby
TechFreedom President Berin Szoka
The App Association President Jonathan Zuck
Karsten Manufacturing Corporate Counsel Dawn Grove
Neustar Deputy General Counsel
Chief Privacy Officer J. Beckwith Burr
LegitScript President and CEO John Horton
NetChoice Executive Director Steve DelBianco
Former DHS deputy assistant secretary for policy Paul Rosenzweig.
Yes.... let’s just give up the greatest current economic resource to our enemies...
Many have sounded the horn:
Senators Cruz, Lankford, and Lee along with Congressman Louis Gohmert and ALL FOUR relevant congressional chairmen.
News Reports:
1. Drudge
2. Washinton Examiner
3. Wall Street Journal
4. Breitbart
5. [UK] Daily Mail
6. The Hill
[Links to this and other info coming up.]
[Easy to understand summary coming up.]
Deadline — ICANN’s contract must be renewed by September 30.
Senator Cruz Set Up a Countdown Clock:
https://www.cruz.senate.gov/internetcountdownclock
[my system crashes even when I try to load a text-only cache.]
Basics for Understanding Obama’s Internet Giveaway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3464721/posts
— and listing/linking the senators and news sources sounding the horn.
Fairyland Fixes for O’s Internet Giveaway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3466481/posts
Yes ICANN Can. Downplay O’s Internet Giveaway at Your Peril
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3465347/posts
Open Letter of Concern by Senators Cruz, Lankford, and Lee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3463938/posts?page=113#113
[ICANN is stalling on specifics and holding secret talks with China.]
Open Letter by 25 advocacy groups incl. ‘Americans for Tax Reform’
http://docs.techfreedom.org/Coalition_Letter_IANA_8.10.16.pdf
More Specifics reg. ICANN’s Contract with US
http://freedomoutpost.com/obama-violates-federal-law-again-reliquishes-us-control-of-internet-to-private-international-body
Washington Examiner Report
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3460431/posts
The Wall Street Journal
http://www.wsj.com/articles/an-internet-giveaway-to-the-u-n-1472421165
Breitbart
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/29/icann-un-take-internet-oct-1
The [UK] Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3763094/The-United-States-control-internet-s-addressing-United-Nations-September-30-pledging-not-to.html
OBAMA READY TO CEDE AMERICA’S CONTROL OF INTERNET...
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/272568-internet-domain-handoff-takes-major-step-forward
Beta News
http://betanews.com/2016/01/24/the-clock-is-ticking-for-the-us-to-relinquish-control-of-icann
Related FR threads
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3394704/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3463938/posts
Can someone explain to me how it is that Obama has the power to determine who’s in control of the Internet? If that isn’t an example, par excellence, of dictatorial power I don’t know what is.
The way everything has gone in the past with 0bama getting his way, either by ignoring Congress and issuing E.O.'s, or the ball-less Congress too afraid to confront him and caving to his every unconstitutional mandate, now is the time to act.
I'm not optimistic that these hearings will have any effect on the ultimate outcome.
I hope I'm wrong.
He is only out for himself. Mike Lee and him aren't conservative anymore since they won't endorse Trump. They just grandstand to try to get attention. Also, Cruz's dad helped kill Kennedy. And his wife is a globalist. Whatever position he is advocating is somehow helping the globalists. Also, he is too Christian. He looks so stupid when he prays in public.
He said bad things about Trump during the campaign so there is no way that he could EVER, EVER do anything worthwhile EVER again in his entire life.
...did I do that right, FreeRepublic?...
Easy-to-Understand Summary of Internet Giveaway
Few people understand how the internet runs, but we all know what ‘web pages’ are. That’s where we ‘surf’ for information.
And the devil is in the details. Those pages are organized through domain names [including the pages of this forum].
ICANN runs the domain name system. And its contract with the US federal government limits ICANN’s ability to meddle with peoples’ ownership. Europe now recommends changing that. They want to use ICANN as the vehicle for a globalist network to police the internet [aka Hillary’s Internet Gatekeeper]. That way they can suppress ‘hate speech’.
China is also holding secret talks with ICANN.
The federal government need only renew that contract by September 30 or ICANN becomes a ‘free agent’ which can secretly wheel and deal with anyone on earth.
LMAO.
I think it would be prudent to assume they’ve already set up an Internet monitoring gateway platorm that will be administered by whoever takes the reigns of the Internet. I wouldn’t be surprised if the plan will be administered by the UN though it may appear to be a separate entity. I don’t trust this administration one iota. It is comprised of too many paid off globalists with too much money (stolen from taxpayers) that are hellbent upon bringing the NWO upon us. Abandoning the Internet and giving it away to “whomever” makes no sense at all. It’s not an adequate explanation as to who’s going to be controlling the reigns or why it was even necessary. I smell something here and it’s not good. Not good at all.
That pretty much covers everything except....2 words..
Goldman-Sachs!
It boils down to the Executive Branch needing to sign a contract renewal that keeps ICANN locked in.
But frankly, it’s not even clear if congress is willing to insist that Obama do it according to Paul Rosenzweig.
All four relevant chairmen say that there are too many unanswered questions. So I do hope that congress makes its position clear after today’s hearing.
ICANN complains that congress is trying to renig on some kind of ‘agreement’. And one thing is for certain — whatever Obama plans we should view as IEDs ready to hurt someone or something important.
Here was a warning back in February although it was spun as ‘inclusive’ and good and sweet ...
Swedish telecom chief to steer web body ICANN to independence [USA Internet control expires Sept 30]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3394704/posts
The multistakeholder model is intended to allow virtually all users, in the public and private sector, to participate in Internet governance — as opposed to a “multilateral” system controlled by governments.
[Note the word ‘governance’. So everyone online can help police each other. Speech policing posses such as online polling.]
So I dissected a puff-piece:
http://betanews.com/2016/01/24/the-clock-is-ticking-for-the-us-to-relinquish-control-of-icann/
It’s packed with empty assurances, but here’s the ‘meat’ ...
‘For decades, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) — the non-profit organization that manages IP addresses and domain names — has been overseen by the US Department of Commerce ... Most upset are those who point to the independent nature of the internet, and the need for any body with global power to be similarly indpendent. Later this year ICANN is set — at long last — to completely separate from the US government.
While this does hinge on US government approval, by the end of September, ICANN could instead be in the hands of businesses, individuals, and multiple global governments.
[The tacit concern is over US surveillance by the NSA etc. But how does control of domain names affect that?]
In February, Congress will hear plans for how the transition process could work. The current contract between ICANN and the government is due to expire on 30 September — unless there are governmental protests about how the handover could happen, this deadline should be allowed to naturally expire.
The new arrangement, announced back in March 2014, would introduce a great degree of diversity of oversight, although ICANN insists that despite the involvement of the US government, it has still been able to operate independently.
... Ultimately, this is little more than a common sense PR move that decentralizes control of the internet.
... a move to a more diverse structure should mean that it is better at self-policing and allows for far greater transparency and accountability ...
‘OK. I don’t care then. If Cruz is concerned about it then we can just let it drop off the radar.’
Excellent satire, nitzy.
Right. Classic groupthink. The ‘ingroup’ belittling the ‘outgroup’ while skirting around logic.
Do we trust Obama to plan this? Even some of the advisors help planning it are concerned [such as Paul Rosenzweig].
Is this worthy of front page or extended news?
Methinks that Soros will set up an organization with the usual harmless sounding name to takeover the Internet. Then will censor and punish those that don’t bow down to his boss (Satan)...: )
‘I’m not optimistic that these hearings will have any effect on the ultimate outcome.’
There’s not nearly enough public awareness. Many news sources have given up months ago.
Soros would be delighted, but no one has found his fingerprints directly on ICANN yet.
This I can point out:
Open Letter of Concern by Senators Cruz, Lankford, and Lee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3463938/posts?page=113#113
[ICANN is stalling on specifics and holding secret talks with China.]
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