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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

WTF! Who's in Charge Here?

Hello My Dear Friends. Let me, once again, try to inject the voice of reason into a world that's gone mad. While all eyes were on Crimea and missing Flight MH370, our President did something incredible and, as usual, the media didn't think you needed to know. The Commerce Department quietly announced that it will terminate it's contract with ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names) next year. Sounds innocuous, right? Well, it isn't. It's insanity on a half shell! ICANN, a non-profit organization formed in 1998, provides every computer server or network a unique Information Protocol address, so that any user searching for a specific IP address will actually connect to that address and no other, and can do so from anywhere he or she enters that address on a Web browser. The Obama Administration feels that America's control over this essential process is unfair to the rest of the world. So, in September 2015, this control will be turned over to "stakeholders in the global community". That means Russia, China, Iran and other authoritarian regimes who support letting governments choke off access to the internet in the name of "information security". ICANN is the last defense in keeping the internet open and orderly. Ever heard of ITU? You will. It's the United Nations' International Telecommunications Union and they will most likely be the group usurping control of the internet. If the ITU decides a certain business, political group or individual isn't worthy of internet access, they'll simply deny them a IP address or revoke their existing IP address and they will cease to exist on the Net. Does that sound like a power you want to hand over to the United Nations? I think not. Yet it is happening while America sleeps. Congress can stop this but, so far, they haven't said a word. Since the decision has already been made, if Congress doesn't act before the September 2015 deadline, the internet's guarantee of freedom will be gone forever and the $200 billion dollars in annual e-commerce will be under UN control. Where is the outrage, people? Where is Congress?
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