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U.S. to relinquish remaining control over the Internet 12:00 PM Tonight.

Fletch said:
Who said I was paranoid? Have you become incapable of simple discussion? I asked a simple question, and as of not you or any other poster has been able to answer it. Care to give it another try? Or just crawl away. Either one is fine with me.
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Nice personal attack.

I have answered....there is no benefit, never was.

Good bye
 
Fearandloathing said:
Nice personal attack.

I have answered....there is no benefit, never was.

Good bye
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You started the personal attack by calling me paranoid. Did you forget what you posted already? If you cant keep track of your own posts, you aren't much value around here.
 
blaxshep said:
U.S. officials announced plans Friday to relinquish federal government control over the administration of the Internet, a move that pleased international critics but alarmed some business leaders and others who rely on the smooth functioning of the Web.

Pressure to let go of the final vestiges of U.S. authority over the system of Web addresses and domain names that organize the Internet has been building for more than a decade and was supercharged by the backlash last year to revelations about National Security Agency surveillance.

The change would end the long-running contract between the Commerce Department and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a California-based nonprofit group.

In a statement, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) called the move “consistent with other efforts the U.S. and our allies are making to promote a free and open Internet, and to preserve and advance the current multi-stakeholder model of global Internet governance.”

But former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) tweeted: “What is the global internet community that Obama wants to turn the internet over to? This risks foreign dictatorships defining the internet.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...7472d0-abb5-11e3-adbc-888c8010c799_story.html
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Even worse than President Carter giving away the Panama Canal. The internet is far more important.
 
Anthony60 said:
We may have to some day. At least under our control, it's been very open with access for all.
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I dare say the people in China, North Korea and such would argue about that open to all thing.
 
digsbe said:
How does this benefit the US or Americans?
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Because there will be someone stepping in to fill that void and currently there isn't anyone who has any level of accountability stepping up to the plate. Would you feel comfortable knowing that N. Korea or the Mormons took this kind of thing over?? They're an extreme examples and highly unlikely, but they illustrates the risk we face. I don't trust our gov't very much in this area, but until there is a replacement in place, I'd rather have the crooks I know running things, rather than a new batch of crooks.
 
Simpleχity;1066371488 said:
Lol. What hyperbole.

The US will turn full DNS address control over to the nonprofit oversight organization ... the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICANN has been managing DNS since 1998 and US plans to turn over full DNS control to ICANN started in 1999. ICANN has nominally reported to an office in the US Commerce Dept.

Some Republicans in Congress are afraid that ICANN will do away with the .gov suffix. However, ICANN has agreed to turn over management of .gov to the U.S. General Services Administration. Although ICANN could theoretically delete the .gov DNS suffix, it is highly unlikely and repundits have offered no evidence whatsoever that ICANN would do so.
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Oops... I thought that this meant that ICANN was being dumped. If ti's still in place, then the US gov't is still in control of this. That whole "nominally reported to an office in the US Commerce Dept." is an understatement. ICANN is ran by the USDOC and as long as they are the ones running that show, the US gov't is still the one calling the shots....
 
Fletch said:
In what way? And how do you know?
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Because I said so. The world is already convinced we are spying on them online 24/7 because we are spying on them 24/7. If they feel like they have some degree of control then what is the harm? We will still be spying on them 24/7 and they think they can maybe one day stop which they cannot. It is a win-win.
 
backpacker said:
I dare say the people in China, North Korea and such would argue about that open to all thing.
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That's a good argument for us not giving up control of the Internet. That was due to the actions of foreign governments, not the United States government.


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Anthony60 said:
That's a good argument for us not giving up control of the Internet. That was due to the actions of foreign governments, not the United States government.


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There is no good argument for us not giving up control of IP's numbers. Most of our technology is originating and rapidly expanding in Asia. It is no big deal.
 
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