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Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the out-of-control dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump opposes a long-planned transition of oversight of the internet's technical management from the U.S. government to a global community of stakeholders, his campaign said in a statement on Wednesday. Congress should block the handover, scheduled to occur on Oct. 1, "or internet freedom will be lost for good, since there will be no way to make it great again once it is lost," Stephen Miller, national policy director for the Trump campaign, said in a statement. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a former presidential primary foe of Trump's who has refused to endorse the real estate developer, has led a movement in Congress to block the transition, arguing it could cede control of the internet itself to authoritarian regimes like Russia and China and threaten online freedom. Technical experts have said those claims are baseless, and that a delay will backfire by undermining U.S. credibility in future international negotiations over internet standards and security. Publicly proposed in March 2014, the transfer of oversight of the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, is expected to go forward unless Congress votes to block the move. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton supports the Obama administration's planned transition to a global community of technologists, civil society groups and internet users, according to policy positions available on her campaign website.

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  1. Does anyone care what Trump thinks? by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 1, Troll

    The last I'd heard, news fact-checking organizations were reporting that he told the truth 15% of the time. Why would I ever care what the opinion of someone like was?

    And don't tell me "because he's going to be president". The people of the United States are still smarter than that.

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    Bruce Perens.
    1. Re:Does anyone care what Trump thinks? by quantaman · · Score: 1, Troll

      I feel the exact same way about Hillary.

      Then I'm sorry to tell you your feelings are wrong.

      You're free to prefer Trump for a variety of reasons of your choosing.

      But to suggest he's more honest than Hillary? That's factually incorrect.

      Clinton, even if you think she's lying about a few key things (like her knowledge of confidential emails, forgetting security warnings), her lies are only about key subjects, have a definite utility, and are relatively hard to disprove.

      Trump on the other hand lies constantly about almost everything and lies about a lot of things that are trivially disproven. He lies about his charitable donations, lies about his past positions, lies about statements he made on tape, lies about reasons for not releasing his tax returns, he even lies about his hair!

      If you want to support Trump, go ahead, there are lots of reasons you can offer and I'll probably disagree with almost all of them, but they could be your non-disprovable opinion.

      But to suggest that Clinton is as remotely as dishonest, you might as well proclaim the world is flat, WWE is real, or Dane Cook is funny. These aren't mathematically verifiable facts (well not all of them), but they're about as close as you can get.

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      I stole this Sig
  2. Re:Why does this matter? by geek · · Score: 1, Troll

    He will change his mind 15 times, not even remember what his position was, and probably end up losing the election anyway. Even if he wins the election, we will be too busy dealing with WW3 to care about internet oversight.

    Be afraid of anyone that wont change their mind. Dream on about losing the election though, you're clearly just a Hillary shill.

  3. Re:The U.S. ain't perfect, but... by Gussington · · Score: 0, Troll

    but don't you want to let in 600,000 more refugees? what's another 60,000 jihadis? Nothing bad will happen letting them in

    What's funny is that the "Great America" that the Donald aspires to was built on immigrants and slavery. What Donald really means by making America great is do things that sound great to rednecks, but in practice throw the country down the toilet.
    The solution to corrupt ineffectual government is not a sociopathic dictator, let's all agree on that.