OPINION AMERICAS INTERNET SURRENDER The Internet is often described as a miracle of self-regulation, which is almost true. The exception is that the United States government has had ultimate control from the beginning. Washington has used this oversight only to ensure that the Internet runs efficiently and openly, without political pressure from any country. By unilaterally retreating from online oversight, the White House pleased regimes that want to control the Web. This was the happy state of affairs until last Friday, when the Obama administration made the surprise announcement it will relinquish its oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann, which assigns and maintains domain names and Web addresses for the Internet. Russia, China and other authoritarian governments have already been working to redesign the Internet more to their liking, and now they will no doubt leap to fill the power vacuum caused by Americas unilateral retreat. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!!!! WE MUST STOP THIS IDIOCY!!!!!!!! CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN.!!!!!! SHARE THIS POST !!!!
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:08:25 +0000
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