Thread: Obama Surrendering Internet to Foreign Powers

Obama Surrendering Internet to Foreign Powers

Sunday, 31 Jan 2010 06:41 PM
By: Bradley A. Blakeman

Without the ingenuity of America’s brightest minds and the investment of U.S. taxpayer dollars, there would be no Internet, as we now know it today.

Now, the Obama administration has moved quietly to cede control of the Web from the United States to foreign powers.

Some background: The Internet came into being because of the genius work of Americans Dr.Robert E. Kahn and Dr. Vinton G. Cerf. These men, while working for the Department of Defense in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the early 1970s, conceived, designed, and implemented the idea of "open-architecture networking."

This breakthrough in connectivity and networking was the birth of the Internet.

These two gentlemen had the vision and the brainpower to create a worldwide computer Internet communications network that forever changed the world and how we communicate in it.

They discovered that providing a person with a unique identifier (TCP/IP)that was able to be recognized and interact through a network of servers would allow users to communicate with others.

The servers woulduse a series of giant receivers to recognize the identifier and connect networks to networks, passing on information from computer to computer in a seamless real-time exchange of information. This new process of communication became know as the "information super highway," aka, the Internet.

Now for the bad news: In an effort to show the world how inclusive, sharing, cooperative, and international America can be, the Obama administration set off on a plan to surrender control and key management of the Internet by the U.S. Department of Commerce and its agents.

The key to the control America has over the Internet is through the management of the Domain Name System (DNS) and the giant servers that service the Internet.

Domain names are managed through an entity named IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. The IANA, which operates on behalf of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is responsible for the global coordination of the DNS, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources.

In short, without an IP Address or other essential Internet protocols, a person or entity would not have access to the Internet.

For years, the international community has been pressuring the United States
to surrender its control and management of the Internet. They want an international body such as the United Nations or even the International Telecommunications Union, (an entity that coordinates international telephone communications), to manage all aspects of the Internet in behalf of all nations.

The argument advanced for those seeking international control of the Internet is that the Internet has become such a powerful, pervasive, and a dependent form of international communications, that it would be dangerous and inequitable for any one nation to control and manage it.

Just this past spring, within months of Obama's taking office, his administration, through the Department of Commerce, agreed to relinquish some control over IANA and their governance. The Obama administration has agreed to give greater representation to foreign companies and countries on IANA.

This amounts to one small step for internationalism and one giant leap for surrendering America's control over an invention we have every right and responsibility to control and manage.

It is in America's economic and national security interests not to relinquish any control. We are responsible for the control, operation, and functionality of one of the modern world's greatest inventions and most powerful communications network.

What better country to protect the Internet than the United States?

We invented it, and we paid for the research and implementation that made it
possible. We are the freest, most tolerant nation on earth, we believe in the
fundamental right of free speech, and we practice a free market of commerce and ideas.

America has always been against censorship and has shared its invention with the world without fee or unreasonable or arbitrary restriction. The user fee to operate on the Internet is not one paid to the U.S. government; a consumer pays it to private Internet companies, who provide access to the Internet through servers for their subscribers.

Look no further than China's recent move against Google to censor the
Internet, and you can envision what can happen when other nations less free
than the United States seek to control the Internet beyond even their own borders.

America needs to wake up. If we lose control over the management of the
Internet, we have given away one of our nation's greatest assets with nothing
in return to show for it.

The Obama administration's actions will set in motion a slow and complete takeover of the Internet by the United Nations or some other equally U.S.-hostile and unfriendly international body. And once it is gone, it will be gone forever.

The surrender of the Internet will spell disaster for our nation, financially, as well as for safety, security and our standing as a great power that values freedom and the free exchange of ideas and information.

As far as I am concerned, America is still the last best hope for a more
peaceful and prosperous world and our president should not be looking for
ways to weaken us. Rather, his job is to work to strengthen us and protect our nation's greatest asset our people's creativity and ingenuity.

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Panama Canal!

They should be damn lucky we even shared the technology with them. You want control, pay a hefty price for it!!!!!!!!

Dixie

Originally Posted by Dixie

Panama Canal!

They should be damn lucky we even shared the technology with them. You want control, pay a hefty price for it!!!!!!!!

Dixie

Exactly, Dixie. Why in the world would we give up the Panama Canal? And what does Panama turn around and do? Turns the management of it over to China. If we give up the Internet, you know who will be "managing" it. Same as in Panama. China.

I'm curious. Is China submitting its management of the internet to the UN? No, I don't think so. Why would anyone trust the UN to manage anything? Remember food for oil? The swine flu pandemic? Climategate and its brothers and sisters (glaciergate, Amazongate, etc.)? UN troops raping nationals in Africa? Inability to influence Iran, North Korea, or anyone else?

Originally Posted by 4thHorseman

I'm curious. Is China submitting its management of the internet to the UN? No, I don't think so. Why would anyone trust the UN to manage anything? Remember food for oil? The swine flu pandemic? Climategate and its brothers and sisters (glaciergate, Amazongate, etc.)? UN troops raping nationals in Africa? Inability to influence Iran, North Korea, or anyone else?

No, I'm not aware of China having as yet submitted its management of the internet to the UN. But of course they hadn't submitted its management of the Panama Canal either when we handed the Panama Canal over to Panama. I'm just saying they probably will since the UN doesn't have any capability to manage it so I would expect the UN will control it and then farm out the management to some entity other than than US or one of our corporations, and China would be the likely manager of the Internet, which will mean they control it since the UN doesn't have the expertise to know when they lost control through assignment of the management of the Internet.

This handing any of our stuff including the Internet over to the UN must be stopped.

This handing any of our stuff including the Internet over to the UN must be stopped.
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I agree. In this case it would appear to me that the Sec of Commerce does not have such authority, nor does the President. This is an international agreement, and I would imagine it falls into the category of a treaty. If so, it would require Senate approval. Suggest calling our senators and letting them know what we think of it and encourage them to ensure Obama does not try to take any more of their prerogatives from them.