Posted on 09/30/2016 11:08:42 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
Hopefully a better, honest, and freer system will take this one’s place in the near future.
Thanks for posting this.
I heard something today about 4 states suing to prevent the handover today - not sure if a restraining order was issued
and I totally agree that our legislators have 10 months out of the year to get the business of America done. If they have to ‘emergency fundraise’ they’re not doing their jobs.
Hopefully will calm some nerves but it still makes me uncomfortable.
“With that said I happen to support blocking this move...”
So he writes a bunch of blowhard fluff before saying he agrees with Cruz and Trump.
Thx
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Because he knows what this can turn into. Basically he’s saying that everything is fine as long as everyone keeps doing what’s been done.
But ICAAN has control of IPs & without an IP you don’t have internet connection. Takes a fool to ignore that danger.
Karl opposes it on different grounds. Cruz is just fundraising off of this like the Televangelist conman that he is, having ignored the issue--with the rest of Congress-- for 10 months, as Ticker-Guy notes.
So in other words, Saudi Arabia will not be able to censor Free Republic. Got it.
Sounds like someone is just starting to understand the methods of deception and depths the globalist are undertaking to achieve their goals. Cruz has always been a globalist, look at his voting record. If Trump does not win, America, as we know it, is done.
“...having ignored the issue—with the rest of Congress— for 10 months, as Ticker-Guy notes.”
Well Ticker-Guy is factually incorrect.
Cruz has been addressing this issue for at least ten months now.
Any politician screaming this nonsense “Obama has given away our internet!” is an idiot.
The author is simply wrong stating the Senate and Cruz simply ignored this issue until right now.
Here is an article from Aug 2015 about the issue.
OPINION COLUMNISTS INFORMATION AGE
Ted Cruz’s Fight to Protect the Open Internet
The Texas senator blocks legislation that could lead to world-wide censorship of the Web.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/ted-cruzs-fight-to-protect-the-open-internet-1438551531
On one side you have Trump and Cruz and on the other side you have Obama, Hillary and the Dems.
Hmmmm! What to think.
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Hillary Clinton previously included support for the ICANN transition in her tech policy platform, describing it “as a critical step towards safeguarding the internet’s openness for future generations.”
A host of Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday published a TechCrunch op-ed that hit back against Cruz’s ICANN crusade. “As the election approaches, their claims are becoming more outlandish — the transfer would lead to a loss of free speech online (it won’t); it risks national security (it doesn’t); it is against federal law (it’s not),” the op-ed charged. “The U.S. does not own the internet. It never has. In fact, the transition protects the internet from authoritarian control.” In response to the Trump post, an NTIA spokeswoman said: “As Assistant Secretary Strickling testified last week, blocking the transition would be a gift to Russia and other authoritarian countries that oppose a free and open internet.”
In fact congress did delay it from its schedule 2015 change. It was meant to be delayed until 2017 after Obama was gone. Typically Obama is acting unilaterally.
From Aug 2015.
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Congress used its budget power to block Commerce from giving up the Icann contract during 2015, which should mean a two-year renewal into the next presidency. The Obama administration ignored that timetable and set the new date of July 2016 to give up control. Meanwhile, no alternative has emerged to protect the open Internet.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/ted-cruzs-fight-to-protect-the-open-internet-1438551531
This guy gives a long winded technical lesson but doesn’t address the real danger except at the end briefly. Why is it so important that the American developed ICANN be handed over to foreign governments since the internet is working fine now? So they can control all IP address allocation and internet namespace. This means they can shut down websites, domains, redirect users , etc, etc. All ISP’s will be under government control and not ours.
If Hillary becomes POTUS "What difference does it make?"
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