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Ted Cruz Proposes Bill To Keep US From Giving Up Internet Governance Role (washingtontimes.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Washington Times: Internet legislation proposed Wednesday in the Senate would prohibit the U.S. government from relinquishing its role with respect to overseeing the web's domain name system, or DNS, unless explicitly authorized by Congress. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a division of the Commerce Department, currently oversees control of the DNS, a virtual phonebook of sorts that allows internet users to easily browse the web by allocating domain names to websites the world over. The NITA has long been expected to give up its oversight role to a global multi-stakeholder community, however, prompting lawmakers to unleashed a proposal this week that would assure the U.S. government maintains control unless Congress votes otherwise. The bill, the Protecting Internet Freedom Act, "would prevent the Obama administration from giving the Internet away to a global organization that will allow over 160 foreign governments to have increased influence over the management and operation of the Internet," according to a statement issued Wednesday by the office of the bill's co-sponsor, Sen. Ted Cruz. Specifically, the bill aims to ensure that the NTIA's relationship with the DNS doesn't terminate, lapse, expire or otherwise end up cancelled unless authorized by Congress, while a separate provision would guarantee that the U.S. government's exclusive control over .gov and .mil domains remains intact. In the UK, the controversial Snooper's Charter -- or the Investigatory Powers Bill as it's officially known -- has been passed through the House of Commons by UK MPs.
Should be delegated to the United Nations, so countries like Russia and China can be in charge.
He is correct that Ted Cruz is a clueless moron, however.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
The US was born out of rejection of the culture in which it had been living as colonies of the British crown.
Oh please stop swallowing the propaganda. US culture did not change overnight with the war of secession. Not even daily life was much affected, aside from the missing war dead and maimed. It was just a new set of masters, who mostly kept the same laws and institutions. Yes they were smart men, and used the opportunity to make some good reforms.
The poor commoners were told they were fighting for lower taxes, but taxes only went up after independence. Except for the elite.
Well, it was George 3rd who issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which started the whole thing by declaring that people were equal, including the natives and papists. For the rich Americans, freedom was the freedom to steal, land from the natives, labour from the slaves adn keep those tax dollars local.
They did end up with a Constitution that declared everyone free and some people were actually worth 3/5ths of a person as freedom includes the freedom to own people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism