America to hand off Internet in under two months

The average American public has absolutely no Idea what is going to transpire within sixty days or less ( Just before the election !!!! ), this is one of the worst moves by this administration. You think the corruption and limited information being released to the American public is bad now, just wait......
" CHINA " will be one of the governing bodies and they just tamped down freedom of speech two weeks ago on their citizens with unprecedented restrictions.








America to hand off Internet in under two months

By Rudy Takala
8/16/16 11:58 PM

The Department of Commerce is set to hand off the final vestiges of American control over the Internet to international authorities in less than two months, officials have confirmed.

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.

Critics of the move, most prominently Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, have pointed out the agency could be used by totalitarian governments to shut down the Web around the globe, either in whole or in part.

"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," Cruz wrote in a letter sent to Commerce and signed by two fellow Republicans, Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah.

In the event any facilities are relocated to China, senators noted, they could go in the same building as the agency responsible for censoring that country's Internet. "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," they wrote, noting that some of the American companies involved with the transition process have already "shown a willingness to acquiesce" to Chinese demands to aid with censorship.

"While this is certainly not illegal, it does raise significant concerns as to the increased influence that governments … as well as the culture of cronyism," they added.

Opponents similarly made the case that Congress has passed legislation to prohibit the federal government from using tax dollars to allow the transition, and pointed out that the feds are constitutionally prohibited from transferring federal property without approval from Congress. A coalition of 25 advocacy groups including Americans for Tax Reform, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and Heritage Action sent a letter to Congress making those points last week. A fourth, Americans for Limited Government, joined that letter and issued a separate statement calling for Congress to sue in the event the transfer moves forward.

While those issues could, in theory, lead to a legal challenge being filed in the days following the transfer, the administration has expressed a desire to finish it before the president leaves office, a position that Strickling reiterated.


"This multistakeholder model is the key reason why the Internet has grown and thrived as a dynamic platform for innovation, economic growth and free expression," Strickling wrote. "We appreciate the hard work and dedication of all the stakeholders involved in this effort and look forward to their continuing engagement."





Sixty days or less puts this transfer before the Nov ( Tuesday ) 8, 2016 vote for President. Oct 14, 2016, there's your October surprise.....
Just think of the ways " Our " election can be manipulated and influenced by limited communication. As simple as....Oh hell the Internet is down due to the transfer, how convenient for the Democrats to spring into action MASSIVE voter fraud on an unprecedented scale without the American citizens ( Who watch ) being able to transfer this information to others. That will give them ( Criminal Democrats & Their MSM lackys ) Twenty Five days to run amok across the United States and fix all the Diebold Machines to ensure the " Fix " is in for Hillary. Look at her rallies, less than hundreds at her current events which should tell most Americans there is only ONE way she can win..STEAL THE VOTE.


Think I'm Kidding, just look what she did to The Bernie Supporters. One Royal Ash Screwing, and that will be peanuts to what she & her cohorts will do without any public scrutiny.

 

The effect: Nothing.

 

What "control" over the internet do conservatives THINK America has?

The internet is a network of millions of independent networks....how is America magically in control over any of those?

 

Seriously? Having an international body assign uniform IP addresses means China will control the Internet how?

 

How will totalitarians use the IANA to "control the internet"? It's a Domain Name Service, it just translates actual addresses into mnemonics.

You can still access a website without a "name", you can go to Google by its IP address...so wouldn't people "languishing in these totalitarian states" just learn IP addresses of these "oppressed websites" and go to those?

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Because > Magic.

Conservatives have zero understanding of how technology works, it's magical to them and Chinese wizards are more powerful than Obummer.

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The United States could not technologically suppress the Internet...but Conservatives think China can do it.

 

this happened back in march 2014

 

5 posts to support my point......clueless......

And Hillary is as Honest as an Angel....

 

Every post in this thread has been exposing how absurd your article is.

Do you even know how the internet works? I guarantee an idiot like Cruz doesn't.

 

Hey Clueless, go tell that to the Chinese Citizens that are going to have to deal with " Their " new Internet.....

 

I don't think you know how the internet works. LOL.

China can already control "their internet" without controlling or having any part in ICANN or IANA.

The internet physically comes into China through wired, wireless, or satellite entry points and is distributed to users by "ISPs" just like any network. And at those ISPs they can control what IP addresses you can even access...much more powerful than some stupid Domain Name Server.

 

This thread is as dumb as someone saying "the metric system will allow France to control how high we can count!"

 

Like I said.....your Clueless. Spin it all day, but you've displayed your lack of understanding. One word Mr Evangelical " CONTROL ".......

 

What control?

Do you think that having an internationally uniform system for IP addresses provides any form of control?

 

Proof, once again, there is nothing so stupid or so false....

that Rightwing Media won't report it and their audience believe it.


This is why "The Onion" is having a hard time doing a parody of the current American political situation.

 

"Baaaah!"

Or, whatever sound a sheep makes.

 

You'd love to see the internet in leftist hands, just like the media.

You know damn well the internet gave rise to Trump, kept him alive, brought him unprecedented support, and is exposing the globalist Uniparty to be the corrupt anti-American scum that they are.

If the internet becomes controlled by the globalists, expect a civil war here in America. Just like if the 2nd amendment is touched.



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So did you not read the article or are you to ignorant to understand what the article says like the OP?

How does a uniform system for IP addresses being created by an international body give China any control over the Internet in the US? How does it give anyone any control?

 

Can you explain how this is an issue?

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How does a DNS server control access to the internet AT ALL? It doesn't.

I don't need a Domain Name to get to a website.

If China magically controlled the highest domain name server, people would just create their own domain name servers to take over the lost service.

 

How does a uniform system of IP addresses give anyone control over the Internet?

Does the metric system allow France to control how high we can count?

 

Dude, focus, how is this an issue? How will China control the "internets"?

 

This is a non issue...move along here...nothing to see...

 

Slippery slopes.

The internet needs to remain as free as the Wild West was.

The globalists have seen what happened with Trump, when the people take power in their own hands, it scares the hell out of them, and this would not have happened without the internet.

I was just thinking the other day that something like this would start.

Liberals won't care, because they love to be controlled. It makes them feel safe. Just hum a few bars of Kumbaya.



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So you are calling for the death of a sitting President?

 

There is no slippery slope.

The internet can't be controlled by the method implied in this thread. It sure as hell can't be controlled globally by such a method.

 

What slippery slope?

Does the metric system allow France to control how high we can count?