Posted on 09/28/2016 10:07:41 AM PDT by RobertZ
It is being reported that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan have surrendered U.S. oversight of the Internet's domain name system in negotiations with the Democrats to fund the government. If true, it is now clear that Harry Reid never actually left the majority leader’s office and continues to call all the shots on what gets funded. Because of this tragic failure of leadership, multinational corporations and foreign powers will now dominate Internet governance for the rest of time in an unaccountable monopoly, and one day, it will be used to censor Internet content. And there will nothing the U.S. can do about it.
It is truly ironic that an issue which unifies the GOP, can be tossed aside because the minority in the Senate threatens to shut down the government. If reports are true, the ultimate conclusion is that the GOP wields far more power when the Democrats control the Senate and they are forced to unify around conservative principles for political campaign purposes. The current Majority in Name Only is hardly worth defending when the Democrats and the corporatists win every battle.
On the House side, if the Speaker allows the transition to occur when the Obama Administration clearly ignored the previous defunds of the giveaway, then his entire call to restore Article One powers are not worth the paper they were printed on. Should the Senate pass a deal that allows the giveaway, the only recourse is for the House of Representatives to simply say no. A vote for the continuing resolution is a vote to surrender the Internet to Google, Facebook, China, Russia, the United Nations and who knows who else. We will mourn the day we gave this away, and Republicans will have been the ones who rubberstamped it.
(Excerpt) Read more at stopinternetgiveaway.org ...
The Senate has already told Bummer NO. Now it’s the Houses turn, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3474487/posts
The Senate has already told Bummer NO.
I am confused. Which is it?
.......Until there is one revolt.
True! Government is to be of the people for the people and protect our nation on all levels.
God bless America, long may it reign.
Since ICANN's jurisdiction lies within the Dept. of Commerce, which falls under the Executive branch, does Congress have any authority to halt this giveaway?
Easy to Google search!
Actually the failure to override the veto would hand over control to the Chinese. I don’t believe it is in anyone’s interest to do that.
If the other powers want to take control of it they are free to develop their own internet. Nobody will stop them.
In other words: Get your Internet, we invented it, we own it.
Won’t do any good in New Jersey as both of our senators are left wing loons.
It is U.S. Government intellectual property !!
Obama has no more right to give it away
anymore than he had the right to give 7.4 Billion to Iran
without consequence.
KY people still won’t say what they see there.
Phone numbers and email here: http://www.house.gov/
I don’t believe that the Senate has voted to override the veto. The links provided don’t match up to the headline.
Call Congress today express your displeasure with the lack of a veto override.
Sorry? Government is going to give away domain names?
What am I missing?
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