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OBAMA GIVES AWAY THE INTERNET……..

 

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Ex-Bush admin official: Internet giveaway weakens cybersecurity, opens door to Web tax

The U.S. government’s plan to give away authority over the Internet’s core architecture to the “global Internet community” could endanger the security of both the Internet and the U.S. — and open the door to a global tax on Web use.

“U.S. management of the internet has been exemplary and there is no reason to give this away — especially in return for nothing,” former Bush administration State Department senior advisor Christian Whiton told The Daily Caller. “This is the Obama equivalent of Carter’s decision to give away the Panama Canal — only with possibly much worse consequences.”

The U.S. Commerce Department announced late Friday it would relinquish control of The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) — the organization charged with managing domain names, assigning Internet protocol addresses and other crucial Web functions — after its current contract expires next year.

In response to months of mounting criticism from the global community over sweeping National Security Surveillance programs leaked by former agency contractor Edward Snowden, the administration surrendered to allegations it had too much influence over the Web through ICANN, which designates the roadmap from web-connected devices to websites and servers across the globe.

“While the Obama administration says it is merely removing federal oversight of a non-profit, we should assume ICANN would end up as part of the United Nations,” Whiton said. “If the U.N. gains control what amounts to the directory and traffic signals of the Internet, it can impose whatever taxes it likes.  It likely would start with a tax on registering domains and expand from there.”

ICANN’s Lebanese-born CEO Fadi Chehadé had already recently discussed setting up an office in Geneva — the location of the largest U.N. presence outside New York. If folded into the U.N.’s International Telecommunication Union, the organization would have access to a significant revenue stream outside of member contributions for the first time.

“What little control there is over the U.N. would be gone,” Whiton said.

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  1. This is ridiculous! “The Internet” does not, and never did belong to the USA. The US has decided to recognize the de facto international status of ICANN, which manages domain name registrations and their publication for top level and second level domain names all over the world and specifies the content of the root zone file which name server operators around the world use. If anyone doesn’t like the way ICANN does this, and some don’t, they can set up alternative root DNS servers, publish their own root zone files, and get name server operators to use theirs instead of the one which ICANN publishes. It’s been tried before!

    If this happens, don’t be surprised if different people get to different websites or email recipients using the same URLs and email addresses. The only way to avoid this is for everyone to agree to use the same set of root zone files and root DNS servers. The Internet is, and always was, about everyone agreeing to play by the same technical specs.

    If you don’t understand what this is all about then shut up until you’ve studied a bit about how this system works and can talk intelligently about it, instead of saying that “Obama has given away the Internet”. That’s rubbish!

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