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Meet the New Authoritarian Masters of the Internet
Breibart.com ^ | September 29, 2016 | John Hayward

Posted on 09/29/2016 10:55:54 AM PDT by Biggirl

President Barack Obama’s drive to hand off control of Internet domains to a foreign multi-national operation will give some very unpleasant regimes equal say over the future of online speech and commerce. In fact, they are likely to have much more influence than America, because they will collectively push hard for a more tightly controlled Internet, and they are known for aggressively using political and economic pressure to get what they want.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: internet; obama; online
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1 posted on 09/29/2016 10:55:54 AM PDT by Biggirl
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Support #Amexit to Get US Out! of the UN
http://www.jbs.org/federal-legislative-action-alerts?vvsrc=%2fcampaigns%2f47237%2frespond
2 posted on 09/29/2016 10:56:28 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
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To: Biggirl

Open revolt is right around the corner. Those who do not learn from. History are doomed to repeat it.


3 posted on 09/29/2016 10:58:27 AM PDT by DownInFlames
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To: DownInFlames

That is if Mr. Trump does not win.


4 posted on 09/29/2016 11:00:11 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Biggirl

Gonna need a separate interwebs. F them.


5 posted on 09/29/2016 11:01:15 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Biggirl

Obama, Kerry, Clinton. Traitors all.


6 posted on 09/29/2016 11:02:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Biggirl

Democrats and Obama passed Net Neutrality to pave the way for this UN takeover of the Internet. Obama is giving away internet control to the UN. It will mean censorship and taxing of U.S. internet customers by foreign countries :

http://www.dailywire.com/news/8483/obama-about-take-over-internet-heres-everything-aaron-bandler

Cruz has been fighting it. I suggested an alliance of Trump with Cruz after Cruz endorsed Trump but no one listened. I’m a Trump supporter


7 posted on 09/29/2016 11:03:36 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Hillary promised EXECUTIVE amnesty for 40 million illegals in her 1st 100 days as prez)
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To: Biggirl

State AGs sue to stop Obama’s internet transition

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3474923/posts?page=5

Four Republican state attorneys general are suing to stop the Obama administration from transferring oversight of the internet to an international body, arguing the transition would violate the U.S. Constitution.

The lawsuit — filed Wednesday in a Texas federal court — threatens to throw up a new roadblock to one of the White House’s top tech priorities, just days before the scheduled Oct. 1 transfer of the internet’s address system is set to take place.

In their lawsuit, the attorneys general for Arizona, Oklahoma, Nevada and Texas contend that the transition, lacking congressional approval, amounts to an illegal giveaway of U.S. government property. They also express fear that the proposed new steward of the system, a nonprofit known as ICANN, would be so unchecked that it could “effectively enable or prohibit speech on the Internet.”

The four states also contend that ICANN could revoke the U.S. government’s exclusive use of .gov and .mil, the domains used by states, federal agencies and the U.S. military for their websites. And the four attorneys general argue that ICANN’s “current practices often foster a lack of transparency that, in turn, allows illegal activity to occur.”

The Commerce Department could not be immediately reached for comment. Previously, federal officials have said any delay to their transition plans would embolden the U.S. government’s harshest critics.


8 posted on 09/29/2016 11:04:33 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Call Congress today to support the PROTECTING INTERNET FREEDOM ACT SB3034 HR5418)
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Maybe we can get Elon Musk to combine his hyperloop technology with a new internet and give us what we've all been asking for...

The Intertubes!

9 posted on 09/29/2016 11:06:10 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: SERKIT
"Gonna need a separate interwebs"

True how quickly will they be able to intercept financial transactions and provide their cronies the abililty to thieve identities. I'm thinking a year long recess from internet shopping is in order. But I only use a prepaid card anyway.

11 posted on 09/29/2016 11:09:51 AM PDT by DannyTN
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If this goes through, obama, kerry, McConnell, and ryan will be known as those who killed the internet.

My advice to them: if this comes to pass, hide. Find the most remote part of the world and go there, and never show your faces to the world again, because you assholes have single-handedly killed one the best economic engines and bastions of free speech the world has ever known.


12 posted on 09/29/2016 11:10:56 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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Yup. The sooner President Trump gets us out of the globalist UN, the better. Dump the UN and take back the internet. We own and control the bulk of the hardware and technology and it is in our nation’s best interests financially and security-wise to maintain total control over it. If traitor Obama gives it away, we must take it back—by force if necessary. Our national security, financial security, individual security, and our freedom depends on it. All our records and transactions (government, military, commercial and private) are ending up on the internet and, of course, ALL of our emails including government and military.

Foreign hackers? Hell, we don’t need hackers if they give it all away.

TREASON!!


13 posted on 09/29/2016 11:13:07 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Biggirl

Congress does jack!


14 posted on 09/29/2016 11:22:40 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: sauropod

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15 posted on 09/29/2016 11:36:36 AM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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I don’t think the Internet will be killed, just castrated.

Internet licenses will be required, at a low cost but with significant personal information mandatory.
Some economy adjusted monthly fee will be imposed.
Critical infrstructure has long been identified and excluded from any shutdown.
TWB


16 posted on 09/29/2016 11:47:32 AM PDT by TWhiteBear (Covert member of the Alt Right, and we are everywhere)
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To: Biggirl
The UniParty is doing this because they would like to do what they know the foreign tyrants will do with the internet. The UniParty wants internet censorship and control. They are afraid to do it themselves but they will be very happy when foreigners do it for them and they can take cover in this internationally agreed practice.
17 posted on 09/29/2016 11:55:59 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: TWhiteBear

Virtually all telcom is now TCP/IP protocol.

I doubt licensing will be required by individual users. Business, news, and social media will be heavily policed though. I think that the EU/china internet “hate” laws will be enforced.


18 posted on 09/29/2016 11:59:40 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Biggirl; bushwon; Arthur Wildfire! March

Yep...they will push for “more tightly controlled internet”.

That’s why American Congress let it go. They got too much flak when they wanted control. Now they can blame foreigners for the clamp down on dissenting ideas.


19 posted on 09/29/2016 12:06:36 PM PDT by The Westerner ("Giving Away the Internet or Any Part of It Is Sheer Lunacy" Jim Robinson)
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To: Biggirl
Ferlinghetti 451 Soon To Rule,
20 posted on 09/29/2016 12:20:18 PM PDT by SandRat (<Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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