[upchuck]

See the article for the text of the letter and signatories.

[butlerweave]

another parting gift from Obama , they’ll never stop him ,they have no clue what the internet is

[Celerity]

Who gave these guys the title and deed to “the internet” ?

I understand that when you fund the equipment, you own it and thus can seize control of it.

But the existence of TOR is proof positive that they aren’t the ONLY people in control.

Granted, TOR is worthless without the ARPA backbone, the government owned lines and routers and all that stuff. But back in the mid 90s I was “building the internet” in Vermont and New Hampshire. We literally paid to have phone lines installed in a private residence, put a computer and a small modem bank in the closet and connected the two states.

Granted, we weren’t watching porn on it but we were getting the most valuable data we’ve ever had access to. Text based, no ads and whole world of possibilities for the future.

We’ll do it again. Computers are cheaper now and modem routers are capable of much more.

[Organic Panic]

Obama must destroy the internet and control what’s left for his revolution.

[Dallas59]

The US does not control the internet. The internet is a network of networks. I wish people would get this through their heads.

[polymuser]

It has worked well. WHY does The One want to give it away?

[upchuck]

From the above article:

The Commerce Department has violated federal law, the coalition of groups argued in an Aug. 10 letter to lawmakers, by finalizing plans to relinquish U.S. control of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.

That, in a nutshell is the bottom line. The US does not "own" the Internet any more than it "owns" the telephone network. Also, the US does not "control" the Internet.

This issue is about control of the non-profit group who assigns Internet Protocol Numbers and the corresponding domain names. (Every domain name, for example freerepublic.com, has a corresponding IP address, 209.157.64.201 in this case.)

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is based in California and has been since the beginning of the Internet. More about ICANN here.

nobama, in his push to destroy the US, has decided that ICANN needs to be controlled by the world, not the US. IMHO, doing this would expose the Internet to all sorts of perils and is not a good idea. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.