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In less than two months the U.S. Department of Commerce will hand over control of the Internet to international authorities:
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.
The move is not without its critics. In a letter to Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker penned last week and signed by Republican senators Ted Cruz of Texas, James Lankford of Oklahoma, and Mike Lee of Utah, they stated:
"The proposal will significantly increase the power of foreign governments over the Internet, expand ICANN's historical core mission by creating a gateway to content regulation, and embolden [its] leadership to act without any real accountability."
[...] "We have uncovered that ICANN's Beijing office is actually located within the same building as the Cyberspace Administration of China, which is the central agency within the Chinese government's censorship regime," the trio wrote, noting that some of the American companies involved with the transition process had already "shown a willingness to acquiesce" to Chinese demands that they assist with blocking content in the country.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 18 2016, @10:06PM
Why is this a good idea?
Obama's plan has been to reduce America's power, and their influence in the world. [youtube.com] He's an anti-colonialist that sees America / UK and other historically colonialist nations to have stolen their wealth from 3rd world nations.
In every single way the people of the USA have less power, economic advantage, and influence he sees as good. And yet, moronic leftists keep voting for fuckwads like this without even researching their ideological stances.
So, that's why the Internet which only prospered because it was built on the soil of free of speech, becoming more in control all the other nations which have censor happy politicians is a good thing. If the US laws won't let them censor the net, so that for example: Hillary Clinton can keep her Thesis which praises the radical communist Saul Alinsky under wraps [hillaryclintonquarterly.com], then let's move the control of the Internet to nations where we can. It's yet another step in the direction of keeping the peasants stupid (in the example, keeping people from knowing that she started her career with the thesis that radical communism would be more effective if implemented from the inside of the government, the goal being to bring division and crisis so a new regime can be installed. So, a move from mob violence ("community" organizing) into using the government against itself and its people -- Meanwhile idiots scratch their head wondering why our government is doing shit that's bad for us.
And that's why this is seen as "a good idea" by the elites in charge.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 18 2016, @10:15PM
Saul Alinsky
Here is a summary of his Rules for Radicals, [sli.mg] which outline how to create a communist police state, and this explains precisely why the democrats advocates for the things they do. The mask of feel good excuses for achieving these ends is never to be peeled off, lest you stop voting for your own demise. And that's why people who vote without researching and are more susceptible to propaganda and narcissism typically vote left. Take some evil, sugar coat it, "Vote for this, it's good for you and anyone that says otherwise is a sexist / racist." That's the Democratic platform. s/sexist|racist/satan/ and you've got the Neo Conservative platform, btw.