From TheHill.com:
Internet domain handoff takes major step forward
by Mario Trujillo
A major step was taken Thursday in the U.S. government’s plan to hand off oversight of the Internet domain name system.
A nonprofit international group approved a plan and forwarded it to the Obama administration Thursday for review and approval.
The group, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has historically been contracted out to manage the behind-the-scenes workings of the Internet that pair up numerical IP addresses with their familiar Web addresses.
The ICANN, if you didn’t know, is based in Playa Vista, a community in the city of Los Angeles.
In the past, the GOP expressed fear that the U.S. government’s handoff could allow other nations — specifically those that have a poor track record on Internet freedom — to gain more leverage over the Internet.
On the other hand Demorats and Leftists, who have no real interest in truly free speech — just look at the average college campus — don’t see a problem with this at all.
The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration has had oversight of the Internet’s domain name system, and it has historically contracted that role out to ICANN.
Now because of Obama? No more.
Another example of Mr Obama’s ensuring that America isn’t exceptional, and that America gets placed squarely in her place: lower.
BZ
This could get interesting, and not in a good way.
America must atone, and this is one of Obama’s many ways of ensuring so.
BZ
The Black Lives Matter movement has heard from the good white folks that if they would just obey the police officer he wouldn’t have to shoot them in the back. The chickens certainly have come home to roost. If the “cowboy” had obeyed the fed agent he’d still be alive today.
[Right. Police aren’t perfect. Neither are blacks. As a matter of fact, per race, they commit the bulk of the crime in the United States. They are the most incarcerated of races in the US because they commit the most crime. They also kill each other with wild abandon. So let me state unequivocally: black lives do NOT matter. They do not matter to blacks, so why should they matter to me?]
because the president is still black and the racists have never gotten over it?
they likely never will
[Right. The nation is full of racists. Why it elected a clean black man not once but twice. However: buyer’s remorse, you know.]
do you understand that Trump candidacy was born from the idiotic racist claim that Obama was really from Kenya?
do you further understand that Trump actively donated to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign?
you further understand that Trump said the Democrats do a better job of running the country in 2005?
why would you then run as a Republican??
[I see. Your screed here is about Trump, even though I don’t support Trump for president. Go on.]
Obama’s race is the only reason Trump is even running for president.
and he’s taken over the GOP simply by appealing directly to their racism.
[Trump has taken advantage of the fact that the GOP is spineless and has no idea how to fight against the kind of rampant spending, regulation and taxation that is driving this country past the point of logical return. It has nothing to do with race. YOU made it about race.]
OBAMA is a good President.
there’s not even any question about that
[Obama will be remembered as one of the least powerful of presidents, the most capitulist of presidents, and one who sold and gave away and took rights from Americans. A good president? Hardly.]
No One Believes the GOP because they’re quite silly.
Trump has essentially exposed them as a laughingstock with his easy hostile takeover
[No argument there. The GOP is frequently silly. The GOP wants to be loved too much. Many of them should simply change their (R) to (D) and be honest with themselves. Yes. Agreed.]
Based on twice elected in electoral landslides,
or cutting the unemployment rate in 1/2,
or cutting Bush’s deficits by 2/3,
of by ending the Iraq War,
or saving the Auto Industry,
or by the low interest rates,
or low gas prices…..??
It certainly isn’t based on Obama’s 52% approval rating when compared to either Trump’s or the GOP congress [12%!].
[Let’s admit. Bush spent like a drunken sailor. Sometimes he embarrassed drunken sailors. Obama continued the TARP trend. But Demorats put us there with the federal insistence that people who couldn’t afford homes be given loans they couldn’t pay. Greed stepped in courtesy of the US government. But you’re deluding yourself to think unemployment rates are down, that the auto industry was saved and that low gas prices are permanent. You are one wacky dude.]
Signing Citizens’ Declaration does not make Obama a traitor!
[Citizens’ Declaration? Declaration of what? That he has gladly assisted in ruining the United States? Indeed, he has. Facts in evidence.]
I’ve always said that Anyone who hates Barack Obama are racists, bigots, homophobes, extremist scumbags. Now with his final year in office coming. the party of NO no longer hides it anymore. They admits they are racist and their racism are their for the whole world to see.
[Again, race clouds your eyes. Turn your judgment inwards. I submit you are the racist, creating statements indicating anyone who disagrees with a black man in power is a racist. You cut and invalidate your arguments right there. You are the racist. I published your comments so people could clearly see who and what you are. You speak volumes for yourself and other racists like you.]
I still find it hilarious that conservatives are mad at Obama because they don’t like minorities. There is zero logic in this “Obama the DIVIDER!” senile grandma meme!
[Right. Conservatives hate Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams, Elbert Guillory, Michelle Malkin, Larry Elder, Condi Rice, Colin Powell, Allen West, Ben Carson, Herman Cain, LL Cool J, Alan Keyes, JC Watts, Sheryl Underwood, Michael Steele, Karl Malone, 50 Cent, Don King, Michael Powell, Clarence Thomas, Tony Dungy, Janice Rogers Brown, Star Parker, Michelle Bernard, Charles Payne, Deneen Borelli, Mychal Massie. . .I could go on and on and on.]
[And Obama IS the Divider In Chief as he quantifies everyone in terms of race, wealth, religion, location, education, etc. Every striation imaginable, Obama draws the line.]
Racial divisions ‘worsened’ because of closet racists who had been hiding it flipping over a black man being elected President.
[How did Obama get elected? By persons in Chicago voting “early and often,” by GOWPs and by blacks voting melanin only. But of course, THAT has nothing to do with race, does it?]
he is a Christian not a Muslim
[If he a Christian, so be it, but his sympathies certainly lie with Islam OVER Christianity. See his own quotes.]
It is the right wing media…hate radio and Fux news….
[There we go. Talk Radio and Fox News. Both of those venues are successful because they get listened to and watched. And why Leftists are and have been trying their level best to shut radio up as well as Fox News. Guess you guys haven’t heard of the First Amendment. And by writing “Fux news” — why, you are exceedingly clever indeed.]
for 8 years they have told their listeners that Obama is destroying America,
[Which he is.]
is a criminal,
[Yeah. Ask the survivors of those whom Obama blew into oblivion via drones and air strikes in the Middle East. They LOVE Obama. He armed Mexican drug cartels and ISIS militants. They were the JV, after all. Most every one of his cabinet positions is a hotbed of overspending and corruption. He nominated a telecommunications lobbyist and Obama fundraiser to head the FCC, threatened internet service providers with contempt of court if they did not install surveillance software (4th Amendment, anyone?), illegally bypassed Congress to delay Obamacare’s employer mandate. . .I could go on and on.]
hates America and is not even an American…what did their Rethug party do …did they bring up criminal charges or impeachment for Obama? Why not if he is destroying this country? So now they are pissed and are voting for the type of strong man that does get elected during a real crisis, but they have created a fake crisis that enough of the Rethug party believes to nominate tRump.
[Wow. Some day I’d like to come over and live on your planet of unreality.]
He is merely giving OVERSITE away!
[Apparently you failed to even read the post. Color me not shocked.]
ICANN has been doing the job the whole time, but had government oversight.
Now they do not have government oversight.
You really should read up on this, it is a good thing for the internet!
Our government had the right of oversight.
The contract ended.
Our government gave that right of oversight up.
I suggest you get educated about this, because question like you ask are making you seem foolish.
[“question like me”? Clearly, you are a product of a public school education. I submit: before coming back here, learn to spell, learn syntax, and learn to make a cogent argument not couched in racism.]
The internet belongs to the world, not the U.S..
[Huh. I wonder who invented the internet? Oh, that’s right, my mistake, it was Al Gore.]
Thank you James Moore, for adding to my various arguments about Leftists. You are a perfect example.
BZ
See my response in bold and brackets above.
BZ