Obama Gives Up Internet to U.N. in 2015
The U.S. only invented, developed and paid for the entire Internet network and we are just giving it away. In another Obama "Kumbayah" (Lord Come By Here) warm, fuzzy moment with a cozy "one-world" global government hug, the United States relinquishes control and global supremacy in Internet information technology and innovation to U.N. International politics and corrupt countries.
The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration, NTIA, will end its formal relationship with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, in late 2015. ICANN is now developing a new global governance model to manage technical functions and IP names and addresses, the NTIA agency said.
The NTIA plans to let its contract with ICANN to operate key domain-name functions expire in September 2015, while requiring the organization to develop a new global Internet governance model, NTIA administrator Lawrence Strickling said during a press conference.
Under the U.S. Department of Commerce, NTIA is working with other countries' governments and international organizations to discuss and reach consensus on relevant Internet policy issues. Honestly, let me ask you: How has the United Nations worked out for world commerce? Peace and war initiatives? Hmn...I don't hear a lot of enthusiasm from you! So then, How is the NTIA going to arrive at any relevant international Internet policies with these same governmental bodies?--Read below for two actual instances internationally and domestically of 'Free Speech Internet Practices.'
1. Spurring censorship fears, on March 15, 2014 Bejing China's largest listed Internet company, Tencent Holdings Ltd., deleted at least 30 popular accounts that send news updates to users on the WeChat mobile messaging application to "crack down and deal with" any content distributed on WeChat that violated laws, policies and regulations. Coming amid a sustained government crackdown on online discourse, the step appeared to be one of the most public and wide-scale to date taken by Tencent to reign in public discussion of politics on WeChat, which now has more than 270 million monthly active users.
Does the current U.N. Agenda 21 apply here too? - Every Internet participant is a citizen in the World Internet Global Society and most agree that online piracy is wrong. It stifles creativity as well as stunts growth because it discourages not only original ideas but artistic expressions too. After all, who wants their efforts and works they created stolen by someone unduly assuming original credits or enriching themselves momentarily?--The argument sounds reasonable, or is it?
Of course, this U.N. Plan is "voluntary"; even so, H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton signed it anyway. It is a plan to develop globally, locally and nationally collective population-environmental plans to control municipal planning and individual activities, including personal choices, i.e., Internet network guidelines to control collective ideas a la Orwell's 1984 scenario or like China's empty high-rise cities which are the result of Agenda 21 city planning on a massive scale. (No one lives in any of them)
2. Waiting for better timing until after the 2012 Presidential elections; in 2013, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was pushed by Obama. In the pursuit of protection from copyright infringement it cripples Internet freedom as it masks massive underlying problems of government infringement on our free speech rights too. With its intrusive powers it allows heavy-handed enforcement to bully legislation over responsible individuals or Internet sites by exerting onerous, ambiguous regulations and expensive litigation which could accomplish the same damaging effects as piracy by destroying Internet freedoms to create or share information. It was proved to be politically designed by Obama to curb conservative talk radio and television shows and was resoundingly defeated before it became law.
Obama has pushed for 'Net Neutrality' to have 'balanced programs' for everyone--it's nonsense! That was true in the early era of T.V. aerials and limited 'on-air' broadcasters. But today, we have Broadcast stations, Cable stations and Internet providers who put on their shows with opposing formats over a viewing audience who votes with their own remote controls on which kind of the hundreds of stations they watch: left, right, independent, libertarian or whatever. Obama hasn't got it passed yet, but he would love to control the program content if he could, so watch out!
WARNING: So what can we foresee?
How about the upcoming restrictive U.N. Internet Agency regulations and controls?
They will be announced upon the U.N. 2015 roll out after the politicians have assured Internet users, 'You'll see no changes.' But, they have already announced that various 'private' organizations and companies will be involved too. What is that vague reference all about?
How about the high exclusionary costs to many Internet users?
I think that the politicians, by the way, are looking at the Internet as the 21st Century's next version of the U.S. Post Office. It is another rich organization to tax as a 'mail carrier', albeit, 'e-mail.' The U.S. Postal union and SAIC are salivating about those possibilities too--be wary.
It's also a cash cow for the United Nations to charge for the I.P. addresses and names registration fees along with U.N. international access charges, U.N. annual license fees--business & personal rates, U.N. internet band use taxes and U.N. internet carbon taxes and U.N. operations surcharges. Additional local, state and federal surcharges and taxes under the current FCC laws will apply too.
Get ready for billions of dollars to disappear into corrupt politicians' pockets or for various U.N. countries' regional 'access fees.'