Regated: Obama plans to hand off control of the Internet to “foreign authorities” on October 1st.
Lawrence E. Strickling, an NTIA (National Telecommunications & Information) administrator wrote that without any “significant impediment”, the transition will occur October 1.
Let’s look at this rationally and clear-headed. This transition relates to DNS servers which are essentially the Internet’s directory of IP addresses to call upon. The handling of the directory of IP addresses is no longer going to happen under American authority and instead be handled by “foreign authorities”? Who exactly are these “foreign authorities” – and why does no one know? Boy, this sounds like a good idea! MORE
What could possibly go wrong?
I just can’t see how this ends well. Expect for the part where speech will be restricted and Obama and his party will just shrug their shoulders and say ‘its not coming from us’.
Isn’t this like me giving away my neighbor’s house?
I should have added that I was being sarcastic.
Why is this not getting more attention? This is a crime, obama didn’t build the Internet. Who in the hell is he to give it away?
No worries. I’m sure if we like our internet we’ll be able to keep it. Just like IRScare promised.
Hm? That was a lie? Damn.
Well, we always have paper cups and strings to fall back on, then.
TO Dianny
Yes, but you *still* have to
pay for and supply the toilet paper.
Where is the sarcastic part, Pelopidas?
As it is, it’s right.
Maybe you intended to use except instead of expect?
Each of Obama’s failures to protect the US and its citizens has been a purposeful and calculated effort to do us harm.
This move is nothing less.
His lasting legacy is treason against the very people he swore to protect.
boy, I’ll betcha Al Gore is pissed.
Don’t worry George Sorass
will regulate it for us because
he loves us…..
June 8, 2016
Sen. Cruz and Rep. Duffy Introduce the Protecting Internet Freedom Act
https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=2669
And Congress is doing what again today ?!?
A safe guess is that they’re all at the Greenbrier snapping towels at each other’s fat flabby asses during naked swim. At least they’re not spending the country into bankruptcy, ignoring their Oaths to the Constitution and defiling the memory of our fallen heroes….
oh.
@Menderman,
how much you want to bet that bill never leaves committee, or doesn’t see air before Oct. ?
It should be passed UNANIMOUSLY, asap. But it won’t be.
In life, as in football, handoffs can be fumbled.
Let’s see how many shit bag libs defend this
The Left currently lives in terror at the prospect of President Trump, usurping powers. And yet they want their current one to have even more.
The Feds have Internet II waiting in the wings, run by them and controlled by them totally.
Content will be monitored and censored completely.
For sites like Drudge, it’s 11:59 pm.
For all of us who bark on the sidelines with our blog sites, it’s 11:58pm. 🙁
All of the cork suckers in Congress will approve!
B. Hussein Obutthole is right on schedule doing his mischief!
I am immediately reporting iotwReport as a hate site!
awd
Hey! While you’re at it you can give away the Panama Canal too!
Oh, wait…
well what did you expect, since hillary and obama have sold everything else the usa had, the internet was the only thing left of value they could sell.
how much did that cost George sorass.
what a bunch of grifters.
Time to “ping” your favorites, folks. Once domain names stop resolving correctly, typing the IP address will be the only way to view web sites.
How does he have any authority to do this?
But it’s “For the Children”
Americans have been known for the ingenuity. We’ll figure a way around this potential roadblock.
I called Senator Collins’ (unfortunately my Senator) office and was given the same exact line I get every time I have called about ANY issue……”Senator Collins has not released a statement concerning this”.
What a useless pos.
Thanks, barry.
Barry’s only just begun. Expect him to continue the destruction through December. Who’s gonna stop him – Congress?
Can he do this with air traffic control too? I’m sure Iran will be up to the task.
Great. Now the fucking Chinese will know that I consider Hillary Clinton the Dyke Bitch from Hell.
Way to go, Bawwy!
0bama wants to give the key to every American city to moslem jihadis who hate our way of life. They are not here because they love America, they are here to claim America for the islamic death cult caliphate. 0bama is helping advance the caliphate like no other traitor before him.
Naturally, that son of a communist bitch, 0bama, wants to take away the voice of the citizens (the internet being the largest forum) and hand the control over to people who hate the American way of life and the very idea of freedom in general.
No more bashing his “prophet”. No more gun or ammo sales. No more conservative viewpoints. No Christian talk. All these things will become “hate” crimes when Barry’s cousins have the helm.
We could make a history correction by tarring and feathering Barry and Hillary on the hangman’s platform. They are the traitors the Founding Fathers warned us about.