Posted on 10/05/2016 3:40:34 AM PDT by expat_panama
In another blow to American global leadership the Obama administration is abdicating control of the Internet. Countries that loathe freedom are gaining more influence over what you'll be able to find on the web.
The U.S. started the Internet and served as its guardian for many years, guaranteeing that virtually any person or group, no matter how controversial, could add a website to the worldwide network. But on October 1, the Obama administration surrendered U.S. oversight to a multinational organization, ICANN, which stands for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
ICANN will have sole power to grant web addresses -- or deny them, essentially banning sites from the Internet. If a site doesn't have an address from ICANN, you won't be able to find it..
Donald Trump is warning that Obama's policy threatens our freedom of expression and our national security.
Hillary Clinton is falling in line with Obama, just as she did with the Iran deal. The media are silent, preferring to dwell on green frogs, skittles, birthers and beauty queens.
ICANN answers... ..."fairness" dictates giving all nations an equal role..
Obama warns that keeping U.S. control of the Internet would "embolden authoritarian regimes." ...
...In 2014, when Obama announced the deadline for the 2016 handover, Bill Clinton opposed it: "I just know that a lot of these so-called multi stakeholders are really governments that want to gag people...
...Ceding control to ICANN will put all federal websites, even military and Homeland Security sites, under the thumb of this multinational organization. The only protection is a letter of agreement with ICANN that is not legally enforceable. Good luck with that.
Advocates for cybersecurity, national defense, and first amendment liberty agree that ceding any control of the Internet to intolerant, anti-democratic nations is a dangerous leap in the dark.
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Oh don’t worry people. All the nasty porno stuff will still be here. It’s just that messy freedom to criticize politicians that will be criminalized.
Don’t shoot me I’m just the messenger.
What happens when the UN decides to start levying a tax on each website?
Could a Trump administration and a new Congress rescind this surrender? It seems they could if they have the will.
I really like Betsy McCaughey. I wish she were on more programs and more often.
Do we actually have a congress still? Remember how often we heard from congress when the democrats ran it?
Hopefully, the Trump administration will fight to take it back.
Once you give your house away for free & sign legal papers agreeing to it, there’s little you can do to get it back
Seriously, this is one of the dumbest things Obama has done. I wish whomever actually has control just ignores what Obama wants.
ICANN is not part of the U.N. and I believe they already do levy a fee on websites, though that could certainly increase
There was a posting yesterday that showed who voted for this to happen and who voted against, in the Senate. I though Obama did this by EO/EA, but no. It was voted on and passed with MANY Republican Senators (yes, a majority of R Senators) voting with the majority of D Senators for this to happen. If we retain the Senate, McConnell MUST GO. This happened under the radar, as the vast majority of the public STILL has no idea that it happened.
Vote for Trump/Pence, he will DEAL with UN/ICANN.
True.
Second it.
Some background...
“ICANN was created on September 18, 1998, and incorporated on September 30, 1998 in the state of California.”
It’s been working in conjunction with the U.S. Dept Commerce since then. The contract with the DOC expired in 2015, and we’ve been living on borrowed time since - Obama set a deadline of Oct 1, 2016.
Four States Attorneys General filed a last minute lawsuit to try to stop it : Arizona, Oklahoma, Nevada and Texas ...they failed
It will happen. Most global leadership want a Trump win.
internet freedom? In peril? CONgre$$
The Gang of 535 should be in federal prison.
Land of the thieves, home of the slaves.
I understand this, but money talks and Trump’s knows the language. How many countries receive our aid?
TOR network, people. Run traffic even if you never use it yourself. We need an alternative to ‘normal’ Internet and we need more people running it/involved with it.
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