[Grem] Better Censorship for Tyrants / Internet to Have Global Governance - Oct. 1st

[Emoke Greschik]

CRISIS: Internet to Have Global Governance October 1. Call Congress!
<https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8807/internet-governance>
Better Censorship for Tyrants

by *Judith Bergman*  •  August 29, 2016 at 6:00 am

Gatestone Institute

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   The U.S. announced its plan to pass the oversight of the agency to a
   global governance model on October 1, 2016. The Obama Administration
   says that the transition will have no practical effects on the internet's
   functioning or its users, and even considers the move necessary in order to
   maintain international support for the internet and to prevent a fracturing
   of its governance. Oh really?
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   The absence of the U.S. in overseeing the governance of the internet
   could spell the end of the current era of free speech on the internet, as
   well as free enterprise.
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   What guarantees are there that internet governance will not eventually
   end up in the hands of those very governments, seeing as they are all very
   eager to gain control of it? None. The Geneva Declaration of Principles
   makes clear that the UN, run by a majority of authoritarian governments,
   wants a decisive role for governments in internet governance.
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   Civil society groups and activists are calling on Congress to sue the
   Obama Administration -- perhaps at least to postpone the date until more
   Americans are aware of the plan. It is not too late.

Very soon, on October 1, 2016, much of the internet's governance will shift
from the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration
(NTIA) authority to a nonprofit multi-stakeholder entity, the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, also known by its acronym ICANN.

Until now, NTIA has been responsible for key internet domain name
functions, such as the coordination of the DNS (Domain Name System) root,
IP addresses, and other internet protocol resources. But in March 2014, the
U.S. announced its plan to let its contract with ICANN to operate key
domain name functions expire in September 2015, passing the oversight of
the agency to a global governance model. The expiration was subsequently
delayed until October 1, 2016.
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