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

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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
 
The US relinquishing control of the Panama Canal was the end of civilization as we knew it, so this will be comparable in scope and destruction :roll:
 
How does this benefit the US or Americans?
 
backpacker said:
The US relinquishing control of the Panama Canal was the end of civilization as we knew it, so this will be comparable in scope and destruction :roll:
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Now that you have successfully beaten that straw man, care to explain why this is a good idea and how we benefit from doing it?
 
Fletch said:
Now that you have successfully beaten that straw man, care to explain why this is a good idea and how we benefit from doing it?
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Nothing changes when we do it just as nothing changed when we turned over the canal. There is no reason not to do it.
 
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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How is a member of the minority named the Chairman of a Senate committee?
 
backpacker said:
Nothing changes when we do it just as nothing changed when we turned over the canal. There is no reason not to do it.
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Then why do it? Saying that there is 'no reason not to' is not an argument for doing anything.
 
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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I read the article and did not have the feeling that the problems mentioned were the whole story. Because that would not be very scary at all.
 
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.
 
Whenever leftists do things on a Friday, I always get a bad feeling. :)
 
backpacker said:
Here the internet is in foreign hands and you are still able to post.
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I just don't trust those socialist/dictatorships all that much. No Constitutional protections like we have, eroded as they are of late.
 
Anthony60 said:
I just don't trust those socialist/dictatorships all that much. No Constitutional protections like we have, eroded as they are of late.
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All the good internet sites are American. We can always block the rest of the world if they get too grabby.
 
Well, nothing has changed, so I'm guessing this has turned out to be yet another storm in a teacup.
 
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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:lol:
 
Fletch said:
Now that you have successfully beaten that straw man, care to explain why this is a good idea and how we benefit from doing it?
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What "benefit" has there been in the first place?

Who has been paying for all that administration and the civil servants it has employed?

The taxpayers I suspect will get a microscopic reduction in taxes once the administration ends.

Why are so many of you so ****ing paranoid?
 
Fearandloathing said:
What "benefit" has there been in the first place?

Who has been paying for all that administration and the civil servants it has employed?

The taxpayers I suspect will get a microscopic reduction in taxes once the administration ends.

Why are so many of you so ****ing paranoid?
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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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