Obama asked, and Congress caved. Now, on October 1st, the United States has relinquished control of the Internet and has handed it over to the global community.
What happens now is unclear. Many agree that the United States will be unable to reestablish control over ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, but people are less certain about who will eventually take charge.
Some claim that the U.N. will take over, while others are pointing toward foreign governments. Unfortunately, the leading contending states have been described as “hostile governments” with less than stellar records regarding free speech.
Breitbart has compiled a list of the countries in contention for Internet control and their respective records regarding free speech online.
See worrying the list on the next page:
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•Obama asked, and Congress caved. Now, on October 1st, the United States has relinquished control of the Internet and has handed it over to the global community.
What happens now is unclear. Many agree that the United States will be unable to reestablish control over ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, but people are less certain about who will eventually take charge.
Some claim that the U.N. will take over, while others are pointing toward foreign governments. Unfortunately, the leading contending states have been described as“hostile governments” with less than stellar records regarding free speech.
Breitbart has compiled a list of the countries in contention for Internet control and their respective records regarding free speech online.
See worrying the list on the next page:
China
China wrote the book on authoritarian control of online speech. The legendary “Great Firewall of China” prevents citizens of the communist state from accessing global content the Politburo disapproves of. Chinese technology companies are required by law to provide the regime with backdoor access to just about everything.
The Chinese government outright banned online news reporting in July, granting the government even tighter control over the spread of information. Websites are only permitted to post news from official government sources. Chinese online news wasn’t exactly a bastion of freedom before that, of course, but at least the government censors had to track down news stories they disliked and demand the siteadministrators take them down.
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Russia
Russia and China are already working together for a more heavily-censored Internet. Foreign Policy reported one of Russia’s main goals at an April forum was to “harness Chinese expertise in Internet management to gain further control over Russia’s internet, including foreign sites accessible there.”
Russia’s “top cop,” Alexander Bastrykin, explicitly stated Russia needs to stop “playing false democracy” and abandon “pseudo-liberal values” by following China’s lead on Internet censorship, instead of emulating the U.S. example. Like China’s censors, Russian authoritarians think “Internet freedom” is just coded language for the West imposing “cultural hegemony” on the rest of the world.
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Turkey
Turkey’s crackdown on the Internet was alarming even before the aborted July coup attempt against authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkey has banned social media sites, including temporary bans against even giants like Facebook and YouTube, for political reasons. Turkish dissidents are accustomed to such bans coming down on the eve of elections. The Turkish telecom authority can impose such bans without a court order, or a warning to offending websites.
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Saudi Arabia
The Saudis aren’t too far behind China in the Internet rankings by Freedom House. Dissident online activity can bring jail sentences, plus the occasional public flogging.
This is particularly lamentable because Saudi Arabia is keenly interested in modernization, and sees the Internet as a valuable economic resource, along with a thriving social media presence. Freedom House notes the Internet “remains the least repressive space for expression in the country,” but “it is by no means free.”
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North Korea
You can’t make a list of authoritarian nightmares without including the psychotic regime in Pyongyang, the most secretive government in the world.
North Korea is so repressive the BBC justly puts the word “Internet” in scare quotes, to describe the online environment. It doesn’t really interconnect with anything, except government propaganda and surveillance. Computers in the lone Internet cafe in Pyongyang actually boot up to a customized Linux operating system called “Red Star,” instead of Windows or Mac OS. The calendar software in Red Star measures the date from the birth of Communist founder Kim Il-sung, rather than the birth of Christ.
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These are the regimes set to take control of the world’s most free and open exchange of information. Some have claimed that the era of free speech online may end with this decision. If these countries have their way, that may be all but certain.
Source: Breitbart
Der Fuhrer wasn’t consulted!!!
This p***k is going to inflict as much damage to the US as he can until the end of his term
Well I hope Violet is right!
This should be able to show the people if the United States just who Obama is working with. George scros
WHAT A POS
That’s what i just heard I hope its true.
Please say this is not so. How much hatred this man has for our country.
Obama needs to be stopped asap before he sells of the american people that don’t vote for hillary
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