ICANN already sold out the Chinese people in order to cut a deal with the Chinese government. Just to give you an idea what makes them tick. They like money and power.
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‘Just think; no fed hot breath on your neck. Makes a person think of things.’
Obama agrees. He was proud to ‘deregulate’ the internet.
Just imagine, Obama of all people deregulating something?
ICANN is an artificial monopoly. It’s power is legal.
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Bushwon brought up John Bolton.
Bolton knows how international contracts work BTW. He’s had a long history in the diplomatic community and his priority has always been ‘America first’ long before Trump ever said it.
Bolton staked his reputation on the line predicting this:
John Bolton on Obama’s Internet Handover: ‘Within Ten Years, the Internet as We Know It Will End’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3472489/posts
“What we’ve gotten out of the Internet, under the shelter of a private American organization that contracts with the Commerce Department, [is] one of the few cases that I can think of in our history where we’ve had that kind of government involvement without regulation and interference ... ” [snip]
“But the fact is, under American control, it’s had remarkable growth. It’s been kept free. It’s been able to withstand a lot of pressure to try and set rules that favor one side or another. And in an international environment, I can tell you from my own experience, when you get all kinds of governments from all over the world setting standards and making decisions, it will be far less free than it is now ...” [snip!]
Bolton called the Internet handover “a mistake of such colossal proportions that you would have thought we’d have a huge debate about it in this country.” [snip]
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“Without that check, ICANN risks becoming an unregulated monopoly with no effective outside oversight and control.”
— Paul Rosenzweig
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3469586/posts
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Who is Paul Rosenweig?
1. Department of Homeland — deputy assistant secretary for policy.
2. Currently he runs a consulting organization for Homeland.
3. Rosenweig authored and edited numerous books on cyber-security and freedom of speech. [He also produced DVDs on those subjects.]
4. As for his politics, He’s been writing Heritage Foundation columns all the way back to 1977.
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He added:
• In the new ICANN, other governments will indisputably have increased influence over the corporation. [snip]
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If you muck through his testimony, you learn a LOT about ICANN. For example:
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This reaffirmation [about how ‘safe’ military sites and government sites are] was made through an exchange of letters. Not only are the letters non-legally binding, they actually acknowledge the possibility that at some point a separation of the IANA function from ICANN might threaten the stability and security of the US government’s top level domains. I can’t speak for other observers, but for me, as a lawyer, an exchange of letters is a way of avoiding a contractually enforceable obligation. I know why ICANN would prefer that course of action – I have no idea why the NTIA would accept it on behalf of the US government.
The majority of people commenting in the news are taking the position that what is must always be and this includes Britt Hume in spades. He is a globalist in my opinion.
The truth is that the system of routing domain names was developed and given to a private company as a monopoly to make a boatload of money. That is the long and short of it.
What was made can be re-made and that scares the crap out of all of the people committed to the survival of ICANN (i.e. make money off it).
The airwaves are still there. The trunk lines are still there. The fiber cables are still there. The server farms are still there, many owned by companies acting as ISP's or providers like GoDaddy.
There is not one thing that prevents the American genius from devising and new name routing process that will be MORE secure and unstoppable by the oppressive regimes that want to limit 'free speech'.
I put that in quotes because everyone in the world that is not seeking to dominate others wants free speech, regardless of the geographic location or regime in charge of that place.
Free people of the world; stand on your back legs and do what is necessary to maintain this thing we call the 'Internet'.
For crying out loud, we went to the moon in 1962. Give me a break. In my 35 years as a computer contractor I was associated with brilliant minds that solved far harder puzzles than this one.
Stop waiting for permission. GET BUSY and stuff the naysayers and whiners about how we MUST do it the old way.
BE FREE