I know that there are alarm bells ringing about the possibility that the United Nations will soon control the internet. There are even some people claiming that this is some sort of Harbinger. I would like to distinguish myth from fact. What has everyone heard about this? I would like to know.
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United Nations taking over the internet???? Really???
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United Nations taking over the internet???? Really???
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Originally posted by Speedlearner1 View PostI know that there are alarm bells ringing about the possibility that the United Nations will soon control the internet. There are even some people claiming that this is some sort of Harbinger. I would like to distinguish myth from fact. What has everyone heard about this? I would like to know.
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yeah that is scare tactics. ICANN doesn't control the internet, and if someone tried to use it to control access, we could just as easily bypass it and create another database system of names and addresses. It is basically just a registration company that assists in lookup tables where you cross reference names and ip addresses. A big phone book.Last edited by Sparko; 09-09-2016, 01:26 PM.
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Thanks for the info. If you learn anything else, I would be very grateful for the extra information. I'm sure other people would be just as grateful.If anyone wants to read my Kindle Book, feel free to click this hyperlink: http://www.amazon.com/Key-Logic-Ted-...gic+ted+hickox
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Apparently four major US states aren't a optimistic about ICANN's control over the internet...
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 further 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.”
“Trusting authoritarian regimes to ensure the continued freedom of the internet is lunacy,” said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a statement. “The president does not have the authority to simply give away America’s pioneering role in ensuring that the internet remains a place where free expression can flourish.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...#ixzz4LlGGomhh
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