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.
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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.
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.”
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.
Thanks for posting this. I was wondering why congress was not doing anything about the handover. Now I know, and a lot more besides, and my concern has been alleviated. However it was a needless thing to do. FUBO
even under the current, pre-handover paradigm a nation-state has always been able to mandate such censorship and in fact any private entity has been able to enforce same for their users as well! In other words there has never been anything preventing China from (for example) declaring as a matter of law that any ISP inside their nation must use a ‘root’ server set inside China that omits the declarations for “.****china”. An ISP that does not want “.xxx” or “.sex” available can run its own root, enforce that for its clients by refusing to pass port 53 traffic outside of its network for internal clients and omitting it from its own private root.
So without control being in our hands, any group like the UN can now mandate just such an action across the entire web. You can make all countries subject to just such a denial, not just your own.
Unless I am completely misunderstanding what he is writing,that to me is the crux of it.
remember rust never sleeps, what might look innocent or for your best interest you are told could have diabolical strings attached
Apparently the author doesn’t follow what Cruz been saying for months. I heard Cruz mention this at a campaign stop back in January.
—bflr—
Well, I agree that it should’ve been dealt with before now, but most things in Congress get put off until they’re at crisis level.
But we sure as hell don’t need to turn over the internet to some UN clowns.