Posted on 08/17/2016 9:34:37 AM PDT by PROCON
The Department of Commerce is set to hand off the final vestiges of American control over the Internet to international authorities in less than two months, officials have confirmed.
The department will finalize the transition effective Oct. 1, Assistant Secretary Lawrence Strickling wrote on Tuesday, barring what he called "any significant impediment."
The move means the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, which is responsible for interpreting numerical addresses on the Web to a readable language, will move from U.S. control to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a multistakeholder body based in Los Angeles that includes countries such as China and Russia.
Critics of the move, most prominently Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, have pointed out the agency could be used by totalitarian governments to shut down the Web around the globe, either in whole or in part.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
"Under 2 months", though, would be very troubling as the election season heats up.
Censorship anyone?
Makes perfect sense.
The ChiComs will be in charge of the hate crime prosecutions.
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Where is the congress on this?
An American invention
designed for "free speech" for those without voice.
Surprise me ... No !
Anything to appeal to Totalitarianism and Dick-taters
Not surprised that he might have wanted to run the world (the United Nations), either.
I want to say stupidity, but treason is more likely.
Very foolish move. The internet will be ruined at best. At worst, the foreign entities involved will find a way to compromise private data.
And Jihad Watch. ....and Front Page Mag. ....and many 2nd Amendment-supporting websites. All such “hate sites” will be banned.
Nigeria can handle all financial transactions.
If they had any guts. Which they don't.
"They" means Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan.
We have a congress?
0dunga surrenders control of Internet to China as he FINISHES FREEING ISLAMIC TERRORISTS FROM GITMO while SURGING the number of refugees (and ISIS operatives) imported into the U.S. from Syria...
So much destruction, so little time! Hurry, 0dunga! Kill the sumbich America that you HATE so much. Hurry, hurry, January 20th is not far away!!!
Half of them are trying to get re-elected
and promising anything to the electorate
and then return to their compliant ways to support "open Borders"
That the electorate opposes
Gotta keep buying the power and money that gets them re-elected , don'cha know !
Just don’t give it to muslims. Pretty sure Facebook already belongs to the muslims.
WTF? Over
If this group gets the ability to levy fees, they become a de facto world government.
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