Publicly proposed in March 2014, the transfer of oversight of the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, is expected to go forward unless the U.S. Congress votes to block the handover.
A vote to delay the transition may come as an amendment to a temporary spending bill that Congress must pass by Sept. 30 to prevent much of the federal government from shutting down. Congressional negotiators on Wednesday were working to finalize an agreement on the spending package.
VOTE TRUMP 2016!
STOP THIS COLD!! We invented it!!
Do we have the majority in Congress or not?
Honest to God, this stuff infuriates me.
Why do we constantly have to do the heavy lifting.
Those butt-heads back there have one job to do, and they seem to spend their time on everything else.
Oh yeah, we saw how great it was for the EU when they took orders from Brussels.
Who would give us our new orders or restrictions?
Wouldn’t governments in general not like free speech on the internet since free speech often outs their abuse of power and misdeeds?
What is the advantage of the transition of oversight of the internet's technical management from the U.S. government to a global community of stakeholders? Why would we do that?
The internet is not broken, so what is the "fix" about? Sounds like a bad idea.
Ping!
It’s too late Obama already handed the keys to the UN
unlike Trump, Cruz is already in a position to do something about this...
IMO, the temporary spending bill and the blocking of ICANN should be separate bills. Ryan should only agree to bring temporary spending bill for a vote once ICANN is successfully blocked by the House and the Senate and signed by Obama.
Obviously this would only happen if our Republican controlled House and Senate actually had real men/women serving who are Conservative and concerned about the future of America.
Of course, if this were true they wouldn’t have spent more money than we took in and would have taken steps to reduce expenses months ago.
On the other hand, I suspect that Obama doesn’t care whether any additional spending is approved or not or whether the House and Senate vote on ICANN. He will approve the transfer of ICANN regardless of what the House and Senate do.
Hail yeah.
Vote trump to stop this.
Hope it’s not too late
You mean that if we don't do this deal now, "they" will not do deals with us like this ever again?
Sounds like a deal!
With Mr. Trump having met with the President of Egypt and also other leaders from other countries, the leaders sensing that he will be the next President it is good that he spoke out on this issue.
Another news story on it:
Donald Trump Comes Out Against Obama’s United Nations Internet Takeover
I thought the Internet belonged to its Inventor Al Gore.
Is he selling it to Al Jazerra?
Trump/Pence 2016
For two years the critters u there in DC have ignored this....now at the last minute they won’t do anything to protect one of America’s best assets
Thank God!
This is a very important issue!
Keep the Internet FREE!