Another Blow for Internet Freedom - ICCAN
STFU! Moscow Controls Internet Speech
STFU! ...Oops! BTW, it's not the acronym for the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union founded in 1934, LOL! President Vladimir Putin just signed into law to restrict the use of profanity to reinforce what the Kremlin calls traditional values in Russia. This line item is contained within their Internet bill to tighten controls over speech and the Internet.
Bloggers with more than 3,000 daily page views will be subject to hefty fines for profanity beginning in August, 2114. The laws do not define what the 'foul language' is which leaves the totalitarian Putin regime wide latitudes in levying restrictions, incarcerations and fines.
Obama recently signed an executive order transferring in 2015 the United States based management of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) controls over to the United Nations body and a yet "unnamed group of people" as an international board legislating regulations of the who, what, why and when on how the World Wide Web, WWW, runs on the Internet.
Are those international panel members that will administrate the proposed 'United Nations ICANN Organization' oversight going to be all inclusive with like-minded thinkers as in Russia? If so, we are in "Deep SH*T" since this is to be the case. Then, look out for them levying onerous user financial burdens like punishing excesses of access fees, service rates and government licenses.
Look out for the ICANN panel members' stringent U.N. Internet guidelines to curb free expression and discourse. This will all emanate from those freedom loving "civil rights advocate nations" like China, Myanmar, Iran, Albania, Cambodia, etc.--only kidding, but sadly it is the cold harsh fact!
Get Your Voice Heard & Email Your Representatives!
~ It is a Non-Partisan Issue ~
~ Americans Owe their Freedom to our Laws - So does the Internet ~
To Email your U.S. Congressional Representatives.
Click on: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/map Enter your home "Zip Code" and it will list by their Names and Internet sites. Click on to their individual "Official Website" and type into their email message box: "Do Not transfer ICANN to UN" and send--it's that easy and it will take a second to do it too!
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