[TheRealThing]

"The United States will give up its oversight role when the current contract with ICANN expires in fall 2015, NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling said. He set out a series of four principles required for the transition, including that ICANN maintain the openness of the Internet. Some U.S. officials and businesses have expressed fears about the United Nations, or governments like Russia and China, taking over control of the Web"
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/in...z2w4MVYV5N


With nearly three years remaining in the Obama Era, he's made me a believer. The US will be fundamentally transformed when he exits the White House in 2016.

[TheRealThing]

^Point of clarification. My original intention was to pose the thread title in the form of a question. "Internet Control To Fall Into Putin's Hands ?" I guess I must have omitted or left the question mark off somehow, LOL. Obviously, the international rooster who winds up in control of the internet is yet to be seen.

One thing is for sure though. From between the two given possibilities, both Russia and the Chinese government, control their citizen internet traffic with an iron fist.
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"China's new communist leaders are increasing already tight controls on Internet use and electronic publishing following a spate of embarrassing online reports about official abuses."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-tighte...-internet/

Why would America give up control of something so vital to every American with a cell phone, tablet or computer? Is it possible that Dems would rather see the internet effectively dismantled, rather than allow those who disagree with their brand of political views to continue to use the internet as a platform from which to air such oppositional material?

Here is the problem as I see it, and this problem centers around what is possibly the most specific administrative promise that Mr Obama made to this country. In a word, the promise was for an unprecedented level of "TRANSPARENCY." Since the unpopular, from the point of view of the Democrat, Supreme Court decision on Citizens United, we have seen an obvious back lash. First the tongue lashing dropped on the heads of the responsible Justices seated right up front of the president during his 2010 SOTU address, then it was allegations of the IRS wrongly singling out 501©(4) groups (which are the embodiment of the court's interpretation, that corporations have the same right to free speech as do private citizens).

At one time here in this country, the neutralizing effect that honest news reporting brought to the public stage of state and federal political maneuvering, would have exposed any hint of bias and, officials would have moved to allay any justifiable suspicions the public may have had. These days unbiased reporting is at best, anemic and consequently, many folks don't know what to believe. At any rate, most outlets seem to be enamored of such politicians of which just so happen to share the liberal view. Therefore, coverage of items of national interest is slanted, to enhance credibility for the views of the left. On the other hand, news outlets that disagree with the policies espoused by the Dems, are routinely pilloried by their left leaning colleagues and Democrats alike, who realize the advantage they hold in a flattering media.

Hence the explosion of interest in the internet news medium. Contrary to the DNC's self delusion, folks don't like being lied to, and they don't like being force fed a singular political view. They can still choose to support Dems or Republicans if they so choose, even in the presence of debate. (Healthy debate is a constitutional guarantee, btw.) My question would go like this. If it is indeed true that the majority of America is liberal and support the liberal agenda, what are Dems so worried about? See, I thought it was they who are trying to transform the minds of America. So, should we not be more suspicious of those who want to limit free speech and follow an Orwellian approach to news reporting? I would hazard a guess about all this. My guess would be that there are some Chinese folks languishing in jail for writing something on the internet or maybe even what they thought was a private e-mail. Further, those of us who fought for America, find it to be incredible that Americans may soon have to answer to the UN, Chinese or Russian authorities for their internet activities. And yet, turning the internet over to the UN would be one way for Dems to possibly avoid the ire of voters for such losses of freedom.

IMO, there are two possibilities. One, we stay free because the media wakes up, and does their darn job. Or two, we get our opinions "given" to us ala the current Democrat leadership wishes.

[TheRealThing]

Though we may not yet know who will actually pull the strings with regard to what will almost certainly amount to the monitoring/metering of the internet, there are some front running suspects. First of all, it seems we are destined to cede control to the UN, (imagine that!). The management and enforcement of any new internet rules that come down will be done by a UN entity known as the ITU. International Telecommunications Union.

http://www.whatistheitu.org/

Right now the US holds the trump card with regard to freedom of access to a free internet matrix. In the very near future however, she will be just another UN member nation whose total power and influence will be limited to one vote. So, it is therefore easy to imagine strict limitations or fees being imposed on internet users under the following circumstances. What if the majority of member nations harbor any form of contempt, or if they could be somehow manipulated by the likes of Russia, Iran or China to form a voting bloc against the USA? I don't really care what administration first came up with the idea of ceding control to an arbitrary foreign authority. In my mind, it's just plain stupid.

The once unshakable concept of free speech under which we all grew up, is nowadays a mere ghost of it's former self. Further, if the UN gets the power to limit speech or otherwise place restrictions on US citizens, it's over. This is why I continue to assert that mindless support of any particular party, will and has been, so erosive to traditional American values. Vet candidates and vote for freedom loving Americans who wouldn't necessarily have to have a gun to their head before they'd be willing to show their birth certificate.

[TigerBlues]

I feel really dumb after I read your threads Real Thing.

[TheRealThing]

Why's that TB?