Say goodbye to the internet! Excerpt: Its the decision to relinquish control over Internet domain names. As of next year, by Obama administration fiat, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) will no longer be in charge. Instead control will pass to some other international body--most likely, L. Gordon Crovitz points out in todays Wall Street Journal, the UNs International Telecommunication Union (ITU), favored by the worlds tyrants. Like almost everything at the UN, the ITU is controlled by authoritarian regimes such as Russia and China, who marshal voting blocs of unfree countries to drown out free ones. These are countries that want to be able to shut down their citizens access to the Internet, and to prevent online activism of various kinds. U.S-controlled Icann is the last defense against the kind of censorship and repression that would entrench their power indefinitely.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:53:08 +0000
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