O'Web Woes

Newsmax - Obama Surrendering Internet to Foreign Powers: "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..."

Ok, some of the comments in this post deserve a little more highlighting:

...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...

My bold, btw:

...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...

After you get off the floor laughing, try watching some skin porn on your toob, then go practice tolerance by driving through urban America with a Rebel flag flying or try booming some busting hip-hop through rural America and find out just how far that tolerance goes. Yeah, we're tolerant. Just not that tolerant.

I do agree with the gist of the post that the U.S. should retain control, but I am not going to delude myself about the reasons why we should retain control.