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.
you all realize this is how the left is going to censor free speech. It could not be done in America... but since its going to be done under international control... we even you lefties will no be free to criticize the cronies. This is perhaps the sickiest most demented anti america thing the left and Obama can conjure.
Obama doing everything he can to minimize America's power in the world. Because America's 'bad'. And Americans are 'bad' who need to 'atone for shit'.
This idea falls into the same category as taking in millions of muslim refugees/economic migrants. It offers no benefit for us and poses plenty of potential problems, so why would we do it?
does even one lefty here have the balls to agree that this is wrong. do you even care one iota for freedom of speech over party control. what is wrong with you guys and gals? once the crony party gets control... then you just have intra party fights for dictatorship. don't you guys read or experience history.
exactly the problem with turning over the internet to a soros like extra national governing body. they could choose to deny the internet to big groups for similar reasons.