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Obama Surrendering Internet to Foreign Powers
NEWSMAX ^ | 31 Jan 2010 | By: Bradley A. Blakeman

Posted on 02/01/2010 10:41:04 PM PST by BellStar

Without the ingenuity of America’s brightest minds and the investment of U.S. taxpayer dollars, there would be no Internet, as we now know it today.

Now, the Obama administration has moved quietly to cede control of the Web from the United States to foreign powers.

Some background: The Internet came into being because of the genius work of Americans Dr.Robert E. Kahn and Dr. Vinton G. Cerf. These men, while working for the Department of Defense in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the early 1970s, conceived, designed, and implemented the idea of "open-architecture networking."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; cerf; darpa; democrat; democrats; dns; foreign; globalism; iana; icann; impeachobama; internet; obama; powers
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To: carolina71; Frantzie
IT is a huge field where many know all the in’s and out’s of the internet.

True and there are many hobbyist that are also knowledgeable. But they are a fairly insular group. They do not get their views or ideas cross pollinated out side their little sphere of influence.

I just don’t see the mainstream media picking up on this. And if gets some coverage on Page D5 I don’t see many people finding the article and thinking it will have much impact on their life.

How many people have taken an interest in the Net Neutrality Act? That can have a huge impact on how we use the net and who do you know has taken the time to look into what that abortion of a bill will do?

Do you really think it will be a blip on the radar once it’s changed or gone?

Yes.

Like I said:

This won’t even be a blip on the radar of the American people until it is too late and probably long after Obama is gone.

People won’t notice until they can’t do the things that they have been accustomed to doing.

This new governing body will not changes things drastically immediately. They will take time to slowly gather power and build up a body of reason for needed change to how the internet works. Hackers are the most likely excuse they will use; a need for security.

It is a slow road to serfdom we are on. The free world will end with a whimper and not bang. It is entertainment that is the opiate of the people and not religion. The Christian religion has been the guardian of freedom these last few centuries. Christianity is being exiled by the West and with it goes the guiding light of freedom.

21 posted on 02/02/2010 12:26:01 AM PST by Pontiac
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To: celtic gal

Russia in the Russian script yes I used to get those all the time but guess my spam blocker gets and eats them now.


22 posted on 02/02/2010 12:31:25 AM PST by BellStar (Be strong ........Joshua 1:6)
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To: Jim Robinson
I'm out of business if …~`•`♥♫♫ take my Internet from me! ♫♫♥`•` ~...
23 posted on 02/02/2010 12:36:21 AM PST by BellStar (Be strong ........Joshua 1:6)
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To: Pontiac
Obama Surrendering Internet to Foreign Powers is serious, I’m out of business …~`•`♥♫♫ if they take my Internet from me! ♫♫♥`•` ~... First it was the latest greatest spam blocker that began eating all my friends and now some poor starving a$$ third worlder is going to take over my little business who has never even herd of Kemah and is probably to weak from hunger or the beatings to care!

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!

24 posted on 02/02/2010 12:50:47 AM PST by BellStar (Be strong ........Joshua 1:6)
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To: Red Steel

True about zero. As to American ingenuity succeeds in developing a new system, as long as it’s better, we win. If it isn’t, we will look so foolhardy and imbecilic, we will need many, many decades to live it down, if ever. It would be a very hard loss to survive.


25 posted on 02/02/2010 1:14:41 AM PST by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
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To: Pontiac

Internet and social policy are closely tied. If America keeps itself free then it will refuse foreign edicts that would wish censorship on its internal networks.


26 posted on 02/02/2010 1:34:58 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: BellStar
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

1. He gave away control of our internet.

27 posted on 02/02/2010 1:50:23 AM PST by Rocky (Obama's ego: The "I's" have it.)
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To: ShadowAce

ping


28 posted on 02/02/2010 3:03:21 AM PST by raybbr
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To: BellStar

Stocks will take a dump -—— AGAIN
Everything we do is connected to the internet. This insanity has to stop NOW.


29 posted on 02/02/2010 3:11:11 AM PST by fivecatsandadog (You better HOPE you end up with more than a little CHANGE in your pocket when he's finished.)
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To: BellStar

The seeds of a new civil war being planted.


30 posted on 02/02/2010 3:22:49 AM PST by Biggirl (Justice Alito Said It As He Called It "You Lie"!=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: DoughtyOne; Mrs. Don-o

I have really tried to not ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence. I am just about done with that.


31 posted on 02/02/2010 3:25:55 AM PST by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal departs Iraq 2-1.)
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To: Pinkbell

Obama’s Panama Canal moment.


32 posted on 02/02/2010 3:27:09 AM PST by rusty millet
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To: BellStar
waxenterror

The INTERNET is the greatest asset to individual liberty ever created. No wonder RATS are working to kill it.

33 posted on 02/02/2010 3:28:57 AM PST by Nateman (If liberals aren't screaming you're doing it wrong.)
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To: Nateman

34 posted on 02/02/2010 3:52:15 AM PST by Pinkbell
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To: All; backhoe

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395144/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362861/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353887/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352963/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2297382/posts

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The US lets go of the internet – will anyone notice?
NewScientist ^ | October 13, 2009 | Gareth Morgan
Posted on October 15, 2009 12:04:24 AM PDT by bogusname

POLITICAL power is rarely ceded without good reason. So eyebrows were raised last week when the US Department of Commerce decided to relax its grip on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body responsible for the naming system that ensures that when you type a web address, your browser knows where to go. In future, governments and other international organisations will be able to nominate staff to sit on one of ICANN’s three newly created steering committees, something the DoC had resisted for years. “What it really means,” says ICANN’s chief executive Rod Beckstrom, “is that we’re going global.”

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http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/101309_ICANN_Names_Three_New_GNSO_Council_Members

“ICANN Names Three New GNSO Council Members”
Tags: government appointments ICANN domains
By Justin Lee, October 13, 2009

SNIPPET: “(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet regulation body ICANN (www.icann.org) announced this week it has named three individuals to serve as non-commercial stakeholder group representatives on the new Generic Names Supporting Organization Council at its September 30th board meeting.

The appointees include Mohammed Rafik Dammak of Tunisia, Rosemary Sinclair of Australia and Debra Hughes of the United States.

The board’s structural improvements committee reviewed the applications from a range of volunteers before recommending to the full board three candidates to serve on the GNSO Council for the next two years.

The newly appointed individuals were recommended by the SIC based on their skills, experience, background, knowledge, passion and ability to help build non-commercial participation and contribute to the work of the GNSO.

The committee paid particular attention to the candidates’ ability to contribute to diversity of geographic representation on the council.”

7 posted on October 15, 2009 12:19:37 AM PDT by Cindy


35 posted on 02/02/2010 4:18:19 AM PST by Cindy
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To: BellStar
I think this is a great idea.

And, in the meantime, a new USANet will spring up that is exclusive to the US and uses all the same protocols and network infrastructure.

Obama must really be upset that Jimmy Carter beat him in giving away the Panama Canal.

36 posted on 02/02/2010 5:05:14 AM PST by The Duke
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To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...

37 posted on 02/02/2010 5:20:15 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: carolina71
Compare and contrast those who "know" about The Net, to those who only know about the "interwebs".

At this point the latter probably outnumbers the former, and as long as twitter, facebook and youtube are still accessible, their world will not be shaken.

38 posted on 02/02/2010 5:42:24 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: BellStar
Obama's surrender of internet = TREASON.
Obama's closing of Gitmo = TREASON
Obama's trying KSM in civilian court = TREASON
Obama's failure to blame jihadism for Ft Hood massacre = TREASON
Obama's removing missle shields in Poland = TREASON

It's time for the courts and people to remove the usurper, put him in jail, and try him and DNC enablers for their crimes against the American people. See tagline.

39 posted on 02/02/2010 5:49:39 AM PST by circumbendibus (Obama is an unconstitutional illegal putative president. Quo Warranto in 2010)
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To: circumbendibus

Oh yeah. Obama’s bowing to King of Saudi Arabia, Putin, Emperor of Japan, Premiere of China, and mayor of Tampa (who declared CAIR day in Tampa) = treason


40 posted on 02/02/2010 5:55:14 AM PST by circumbendibus (Obama is an unconstitutional illegal putative president. Quo Warranto in 2010)
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