U.S. aims to give up control over Internet administration

Washington Post ^ | Friday, March 14, 4:19 PM | By Craig Timberg,

[gooblah]

U.S. officials announced plans Friday to relinquish federal government control over the administration of the Internet, a move likely to please international critics but alarm many business leaders and others who rely on smooth functioning of the Web.

Pressure to let go of the final vestiges of U.S. authority over the system of Web addresses and domain names that organize the Internet has been building for more than a decade and was supercharged by the backlash to revelations about National Security Agency surveillance last year.

[BenLurkin]

Treason.

Again.

[tomkat]

What could possibly go wrong ? !

[INVAR]

Say goodbye to the last frontier of free speech and information - now that the UN/China/Islam will end up controlling the net.

[dforest]

I have had it. The US is dead. We have given up out country to the UN.

I am ashamed.

[TADSLOS]

Now that the NSA have all of their back doors in place....

[dforest]

We are a country of cowards. We are over because we have not stood up for what is right.

Makes me ill and you are right. Always have been.

[sauropod]

Stupid.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[tomkat]

.. I survived w/o the 'net prior to 1990, and can likely do so again .. at this point it's about become a spam saturated fustercluck anyway.

(tho FR would be sorely missed)

[Mr. Jeeves]

Exactly. They aren’t relinquishing anything.

[21twelve]

Al Gore is either really happy about this, or really pissed.

[Scrambler Bob]

Quick, tell Al!

[Nachum]

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/

[SkyPilot]

Bad news Friday:

Russian companies withdraw billions from west, say Moscow bankers

[3Fingas]

Our political class has got to be the stupidest collection of people on the planet.

[Taxman]

All your computers are belong us.

[Rudder]

Until January,2017...That’s how long it will be until the little bastard’s gone.

[RPTMS]

Looks like Algore pledged his invention to the Chi-coms back in the 90s.

[PoloSec]

"Until January,2017...That’s how long it will be until the little bastard’s gone."

So near yet so far away...the damage this Rat can do in three years is astounding, 2014, is the target, even then the best we can hope for is to slow him down.