Cruz Fights Obama Global Internet Giveaway

[Sanguine]

June 14, 2016
Cruz Fights Obama Global Internet Giveaway
By Daniel John Sobieski

Totalitarian governments and those who seek to expand the power and control of government fear the free exchange of information and ideas. The Obama administration is no exception and has long pushed the concept of “net neutrality” which, in the name of giving everyone equal access to the Internet, empowers government to be the traffic cop -- in essence putting government toll booths on the information superhighway.

On Thursday, an arm of the Commerce Department, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)  decided to turn  over total control of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a private non-profit entity which manages important elements of the Internet such as domain naming and IP addresses:

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On the surface, this would appear to be a welcome effort to privatize a former government function, but in reality it relinquishes the U.S. government’s role as the arbiter and guarantor of Internet freedom and turns over full control to a group subject to the anti-freedom impulses of the so-called international community, including the United Nations....

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/06/cruz_fights_obama_global_internet_giveaway.html