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One of these is the "great Internet giveaway" — Obama's effort to surrender effective control of the World Wide Web to a group of multinational corporate interests and nonprofits (or if that fails, a United Nations bureaucracy).
President Obama's Commerce Department — specifically the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) — wants to take the Web's most essential operational functions and cede them to the "global Internet community." Among these core functions are the resources provided by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which coordinates all of the Internet's globally unique identifiers (domain names, number resources, protocol assignments, etc.). This is literally the nuts and bolts of the web; its essential underlying architecture. Currently, the U.S. Department of Commerce contracts out responsibility for IANA to a Los Angeles-based nonprofit called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
This relationship has secured a free and open Internet for nearly two decades, driving innovation and preventing censorship of content. Why would Obama want to undo that? According to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), a staunch supporter of Internet freedom, the proposed giveaway is yet another attempt by the administration to undermine U.S. sovereignty — in the process, "jeopardizing the freedoms of billions of citizens the world over.
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Obama's administration — always on the lookout for ways to circumvent Congress and the Constitution — has rebuked this obligation, claiming "no government property or assets are involved in the contract" with ICANN. Really? The most recent government contract with ICANN clearly states that "all deliverables under this contract become the property of the U.S. government."
That means Obama's intended transfer is subject to federal property laws, which Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) have correctly concluded requires affirmative congressional approval — not Walden's wink-and-nod attempt to surrender the future of the Internet to the likes of China, Russia and North Korea.
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/technology/245704-gop-cannot-give-in-to-obamas-great-internet-giveaway
June 22, 2015, 12:00 pm
GOP cannot give in to Obama's 'great Internet giveaway'
By Rick Manning, contributor
That means Obama's intended transfer is subject to federal property laws, which Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) have correctly concluded requires affirmative congressional approval — not Walden's wink-and-nod attempt to surrender the future of the Internet to the likes of China, Russia and North Korea.
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/technology/245704-gop-cannot-give-in-to-obamas-great-internet-giveaway
June 22, 2015, 12:00 pm
GOP cannot give in to Obama's 'great Internet giveaway'
By Rick Manning, contributor
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