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The End of a Free Internet?
nationalreview.com ^
| Jan. 3, 2015
| Josh Gelernter
Posted on 01/03/2015 6:38:50 PM PST by PROCON
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I don't trust anything that comes out of this Regime; can someone smarter than me tell me if this is censorship of the Regime's enemies or something else.
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posted on
01/03/2015 6:38:50 PM PST
by
PROCON
To: PROCON
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posted on
01/03/2015 6:41:44 PM PST
by
hosepipe
(" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
To: hosepipe
Duh....
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Indeed. This is not Rocket Science.
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posted on
01/03/2015 6:47:19 PM PST
by
InterceptPoint
(Remember Mississippi)
To: PROCON
This is a big deal. And much more dangerous than Net Neutrality.
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posted on
01/03/2015 6:49:43 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
To: PROCON
This is a genuine issue if concern. For those that need a URL for internet, either a forum like FR or a business, that URL will be issued by a political body outside the USA.
The idea of that is an outrage!
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posted on
01/03/2015 6:50:36 PM PST
by
Hostage
(ARTICLE V)
To: PROCON
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posted on
01/03/2015 6:51:38 PM PST
by
cyn
(Benghazi.)
To: PROCON
I told you so.
This whole thing of blaming the Norks for the Sony Hacking was a “Reichstag Fire” meant to justify the government takeover of the Internet.
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posted on
01/03/2015 6:52:40 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: hosepipe
Can’t we just give the Panama Canal away again?
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posted on
01/03/2015 6:53:44 PM PST
by
The Duke
To: PROCON
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posted on
01/03/2015 6:55:49 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: PROCON
If anything happens to the Internet the democrats will pay at the polls with millennials.
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posted on
01/03/2015 6:56:47 PM PST
by
Impy
(They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
To: PROCON
The “free” internet died with the death of Usenet and analog phone systems.
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posted on
01/03/2015 7:00:13 PM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(A Psalm in napalm...)
Comment #12 Removed by Moderator
To: PROCON
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posted on
01/03/2015 7:03:49 PM PST
by
Inyo-Mono
(Just say NO to Bush in 2016.)
To: PROCON
American governance of the Internet has been incredibly benevolent and altogether hands-off. Not true. Courts steal domain names all the time. Just ask the folks at PirateBay dot etc.
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posted on
01/03/2015 7:11:22 PM PST
by
SeeSharp
To: PROCON
Why not just leave it like it is?
Seems to be working just fine right now, as it always has....
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posted on
01/03/2015 7:11:34 PM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: PROCON
Obama must be doing this to damage the Nation's ability utilizing ICANN which is a nonprofit organization that is responsible for the coordination of maintenance and methodology of several databases of unique identifiers related to the namespaces of the Internet, and
ensuring the network's stable and secure operation. Additionally, this will affect the Department of Commerce.
ICANN then endorsed The Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet Cooperation was released on 7 October 2013 by the leaders of a number of organizations involved in coordinating the Internet's global technical infrastructure.
The statement was signed by the heads of the ICANN, the Internet Architecture Board, the World Wide Web Consortium, the Internet Society, and the five regional Internet address registries (African Network Information Center, American Registry for Internet Numbers, Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre, Latin America and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry, and Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre). In large part, the statement is seen as a response to the ongoing NSA surveillance scandal. The leaders of said organizations then decided to grab the keys to the Internet.
Maybe the USA has other aspirations and just as DARPA will have always kept its fingers on the keyboard, but they have new mission that doesn't involve the internet.
The 100 Year Starship (100YSS) is a joint U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) grant project to a private entity. The goal of the study is not to have the government fund the actual building of spacecraft, but rather to create a business plan that can last 100 years in order to help foster the research needed for interstellar travel.
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01/03/2015 7:12:23 PM PST
by
Jumper
To: Dead Corpse
Most of Grand Prairie is still served by an analogue phone system. Regular dial-up only gets to 31200 bps, on a REALLY good day. DSL tops out at 3 Mbps, inexplicably. I’m not even sure HOW they even wired it. Around here, most people have cable internet, or wireless 4G dial-up.
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posted on
01/03/2015 7:18:19 PM PST
by
__rvx86
(A non-trivial fear: Government by my peers. Double points if you can figure out when I was born.)
To: PROCON
What ICANN Does and Doesnt Do
Figuring out who handles what in the Internet ecosystem can be tricky.
Some people think that ICANN is the organization that runs the Internet, but the fact is that ICANN plays a high level, important but limited role in how the Internet is organized.
Heres how it works.
To reach another person on the Internet you have to give your computer a destination usually entered as a name or number. That destination has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICA NN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. Humans prefer to find desired web addresses and email addresses by name (such as icann.org.) But computers know each other by number s, or Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. ICANN helps coordinate the Domain Name System (DNS), often referred to as the phone book of the Internet because it matches domain names with appropriate IP address numbers
ICANN also operates part of the DNS, an d manages IP addresses and other protocol numbers. No one person, organization or government controls the Internet. The ICANN community plays a critical role in managing some Internet infrastructure at a global level, and includes broad representation fro m governments, registries, registr a rs , commercial users, non -‐ commercial users, and individual Internet users. We refer to this as the multi -‐ stakeholder model. Below is a short list correcting common misperceptions about ICANN:
ICANN does not help with Internet access. That is done by Internet Service Providers.
ICANN does not police the Internet. It does not control Internet content or stop spam. ICANN works to e nsur e the security, stability and interoperability of the Internet through creating fair policies and through operation of the domain name system.
ICANN does not get involved in disputes regarding domain ownership or registration disputes. Its role is at the policy level, in ensuring the registries and registrars comply with policies related to those issues, developed through a bottom -‐ up, consensus based multi -‐ stakeholder process
The United States does not own the Internet nor does it regulate the Internet, nor do any other countries, nor does ICANN. No one owns the Internet.
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posted on
01/03/2015 7:18:37 PM PST
by
Dallas59
To: Hostage
We’d all be shocked to learn just how many people in this country think it’s just fine that the government cotroll everything.
It’s coming. It will happen. The dictatorship is here. Just like with Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s version of congress was controlled by him. It’s now the same with Barrack Hussein.
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posted on
01/03/2015 7:21:01 PM PST
by
VerySadAmerican
(Obama voters are my enemy.)
To: VerySadAmerican
Basically it’s to prevent or tone down an ISP (ATT,Verizon, Comcast...) from charging you extra to go to certain websites...like Free Republic.
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posted on
01/03/2015 7:23:07 PM PST
by
Dallas59
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