Jay Sekulow
Fox News
4/3/2014
Our “pen and phone” president is at it again.
The Department of Commerce, in a Friday night release, signaled that it was going to give up American control over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which assigns and maintains domain names and web addresses for the Internet.
Ceding control of this key function creates a power vacuum, one that authoritarian regimes (and the U.N., but I’m being redundant) will be only too happy to fill…
…Why would President Obama risk Internet freedom? Why would he place key functions of the world’s greatest engine of free speech and economic development in the hands of the U.N. or other authoritarian entities?
It appears he may be placing his personal interests over the American people…
…One gets the distinct feeling that surrendering the Internet is the action of a man paying his penance to an angry international community, a man trying to restore his reputation as a globalist…
…It’s time for Congress to step up…
Read the entire article at FoxNews.com
Following the government’s announcement last month that the U.S. would transfer Internet control to the “global Internet community,” more light than ever before has been shed on the agency responsible for managing the Internet — including that one of its key leaders is the former official responsible for shutting down Egypt’s Internet during the Arab Spring revolution in 2011…
