It’s easy to think of the current system as perpetual, but it’s not.
First off, there are technical ways to neuter our wireless communications or possibly hijack them if they can pierce our encryption.
Secondly, ICANN has legal authority.
Easy To Explain — WHY ICANN is dangerous
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3472522/posts
This is the quick way to explain why ICANN is so dangerous.
They essentially ‘govern’ the TLDs [top level domains].
Each TLD [such as .com or .org] runs its own ‘phone directory’.
And ICANN controls them through ‘Registry Operator Code of Conduct’.
Right now ICANN is subject to US law, mainly because its headquarters are in the US. But if ICANN’s contract isn’t renewed, it’s free to move overseas [which it secretly plans to] and modify its ‘Registry Operator Code of Conduct’ for each dot-com or dot-org or ...
... theoretically even our military websites.
From October on through to a republican president, there’s no telling how much the White House will coordinate with ICANN in the name of ‘no controlling legal authority’.
[In other words — Hillary will have her gatekeeper if she wins, and Obama might too for a few months.]
What about the dark web or deep web? Isn’t there talk of an alternate web opening up just because of the ICANN debate?