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Post by Daniel on Oct 28, 2015 8:18:20 GMT -5
The Government’s Threat to Internet Freedom Is Growing
by Allum Bokhari 27 Oct 2015
The U.S. government is keen on internet freedom… but only in countries it doesn’t like.
This September, the U.S invested another $10 million toward helping activists in authoritarian regimes circumvent state censorship of the internet. But the goverment’s attitude to web freedom within its own borders suggests that what it wants for its enemies may not necessarily be what it wants for itself.
It’s been three years since the last major government push to control the internet came to a spectacular end. The Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), which activists feared would lead to the neutering of user-created content on the web, led to an unprecedented conflagration of global online protest that eventually brought down both bills.
But the threat to web freedom did not subside: it only grew stronger. A review of copyright law launched just a year after the SOPA and PIPA protests now threatens independent aggregation and news sites including the Drudge Report and Real Clear Politics.
Matt Drudge himself claims, extraordinarily, that a Supreme Court Judge told him directly that his website would be “over” once the new rules on copyright were passed. The web pioneer, whose site is one of the most well-trafficked in the world, also predicted that the age of independent websites like his was coming to an end, and that web users would soon be pushed into the “cyber ghettoes” of social media.
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www.breitbart.com/tech/2015/10/27/the-governments-threat-to-internet-freedom-is-growing/
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Post by Daniel on Aug 27, 2016 8:00:15 GMT -5
Administration Wants to Turn Over the Internet’s Keys on Oct. 1
By Aaron Mercer, Vice President of Government Relations
August 26, 2016
Last week the Obama Administration announced that it intends to turn over the keys to the internet on October 1 “barring any significant impediment.” The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that it was satisfied with a plan offered by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the U.S. to relinquish its longstanding supervisory role over the internet’s fundamental framework of domain names and addresses. However, a number of Members of Congress have noted that, among other issues, ICANN’s plan gives foreign governments an increased role in its deliberations.
NRB has long expressed concern that a repressive government could attempt to fill such a power vacuum and undermine internet freedom. In light of this NTIA announcement, NRB President & CEO Dr. Jerry A. Johnson said, “It is no secret that countries like Russia and China, which continue to show hostility to religious free speech, want to tighten the reins on the internet. We must not allow such regimes to manipulate the core of the internet directly or through multinational bodies.”
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nrb.org/index.php?cID=7209&utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Freedom%20Today&utm_content=
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Post by Daniel on Aug 30, 2016 16:17:35 GMT -5
UN Could Take Over ICANN, and the Internet, Oct. 1
by Joel B. Pollak 29 Aug 2016
The United Nations could take over control of the Internet on October 1, when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) passes from U.S. administration to the control of a multilateral body, most likely the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
While the administration and its defenders have denied that the UN will have authority over ICANN, the Wall Street Journal‘s L. Gordon Crovitz points out that ICANN will need to be run by a state agency in order to retain its antitrust exemption, which makes it almost certainly that the UN will step in to take control.
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www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/29/icann-un-take-internet-oct-1/
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Post by Daniel on Sept 8, 2016 20:32:59 GMT -5
Cruz slams Obama for 'internet giveaway'
By Ashley Gold and Tony Romm
09/08/16
Ted Cruz and other Republicans are barreling toward a September showdown with the White House over its plan to give up oversight of the internet, as the Obama administration tries to rally support from the tech and telecom industries.
GOP lawmakers have long warned that the administration's plan to relinquish its authority over ICANN, the global nonprofit that manages the internet's domain name system, could give authoritarian countries like China and Russia an opening to make an online power grab. Now, as the actual date of the transition approaches — Oct. 1 — Republicans are looking at throwing up new obstacles.
"Today our country faces a threat to the internet as we know it. In 22 short days, if Congress fails to act, the Obama administration intends to give away the internet to an international body akin to the United Nations," Cruz said in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday. "I rise today to discuss the significant, irreparable damage this proposed internet giveaway could wreak not only on our nation but on free speech across the world."
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www.politico.com/story/2016/09/internet-transition-icann-227864
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Post by Daniel on Sept 24, 2016 8:46:13 GMT -5
Trump Comes Out Against Obama’s United Nations Internet Takeover
by Matthew Boyle
21 Sep 2016
NEW YORK CITY, New York — Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, has sided with the sovereignty of the American people against international elites yet again by coming out in public opposition to President Barack Obama’s internet giveaway to a United Nations globalist body.
Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s chief policy adviser, said in a Wednesday statement:
Donald J. Trump is committed to preserving Internet freedom for the American people and citizens all over the world. The U.S. should not turn control of the Internet over to the United Nations and the international community. President Obama intends to do so on his own authority – just 10 days from now, on October 1st, unless Congress acts quickly to stop him. The Republicans in Congress are admirably leading a fight to save the Internet this week, and need all the help the American people can give them to be successful. Hillary Clinton’s Democrats are refusing to protect the American people by not protecting the Internet.
Since the United States has led the world on the world wide web, Miller says, it’s Trump’s position that it should not be surrendered to the globalists.
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www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/09/21/donald-trump-comes-out-against-obamas-united-nations-internet-takeover/
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Post by Daniel on Sept 26, 2016 18:20:48 GMT -5
Deadline Looms to Stop Obama Administration from Giving Up Internet Freedom
By Jay Sekulow
This week, our nation faces a looming deadline that could forever alter the future of cybersecurity and Internet freedom. The Obama Administration is banking on you not paying attention as this historic moment nears.
But we have the opportunity to fight back and demand that our Members of Congress keep the Internet free and secure for everyone. We’ve been fighting on this front for years, but now the deadline looms.
As ACLJ Special Counsel Craig Parshall previously explained in detail,
Imagine this dramatic scenario: the White House pushes for the United States to abandon its historic role as protector of the Internet, transferring the last vestige of that authority over to a private organization populated by international tech gurus. But the gurus also hold seven smartcards that could either restart the internal security framework of the entire Internet in the event of a catastrophe; or else they could disable it. America holds its breath to see how they will rule the most important communications platform in the history of the planet.
Let me be very blunt. Once America gives up control of the Internet, there is no reset button. The Internet could very well fall into the hands of the world’s most anti-free speech dictators, and we could do absolutely nothing about it.
The deadline is October 1st. Unless the U.S. government acts, U.S. oversight of the Internet will pass to a multinational organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICAAN).
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aclj.org/free-speech/deadline-looms-to-stop-obama-administration-from-giving-up-internet-freedom
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