Posted on 09/23/2016 7:35:10 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
The White House mocked GOP nominee Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz for trying to prevent the Commerce Department from transferring technical oversight of the Internet to an international body.
"It doesn't withstand scrutiny," President Obama's spokesman Josh Earnest said on Thursday.
"It also strikes me as a curious position for a self-described small government conservative to shut down the government to ensure that the federal government can continue to control the Internet," Earnest said of Cruz. "It doesn't make any sense."
Cruz is trying to stop the multi-year transition that will leave the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in control of things such as naming Internet domains, by attaching a provision to a must-pass package that would keep the government funded past the Oct. 1 start of the new fiscal year.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
I wonder if the UN feels the same as the US about free speech.
Wow!!! Unbelievable!!
You really need to post this to separate thread!!!
Limited government is good in general, but not when it potentially threatens our national security and Constitutional rights (the First Amendment). These are some of the few things the federal government was always supposed to deal with.
John Bolton on Obama’s Internet Handover: ‘Within Ten Years, the Internet as We Know It Will End’
I wonder if the UN feels the same as the US about free speech.
The UN is run by Dictators
If the world voted to ostracize FR, it would be ostracized.
Obama made a deal with China not the UN
And I’d have a lot more time on my hands!
Such a smug little idiot is Josh Earnest. You know he’s lying when he opens his mouth.
The UN would value control of the www as the platform they need to impose a sales tax on internet commerce, imo.
Not only possible. Guarandamnteed.
This bastard must face due process.
We’d have to go to the dark web.
I am not up to date on this issue-— If Obama transfers control, then it is possible that the net could be censored by foreign countries?
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Welcome, you have come to the right place to get up to date...
Oh yes, censorship is the fear! Here are some articles to bring you up to speed :)
Donald Trump Comes Out Against Obama’s United Nations Internet Takeover
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3472239/posts
John Bolton on Internet Transfer...Won’t recognize in 10 years
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3472489/posts
Who Oversees the Internet Will Congress Delay the Oct. 1 Transfer?
Changing who controls ICANN Jeopardizes Our Presidential Election
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3471714/posts
Obama’s key internet giveaway advocate can’t give a straight answer on free speech concerns
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3472675/posts
Obammy is the personification of nikita khrushchev’s prediction that “we will take you over from within”, imo
HAM radio time
No, it’s limited sovereignty. Big difference.
Like letting Hitler have western europe is ‘limited government’.
Come on! Really? I was just gettin the hang of this interweb thingy!!!!
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