Big Peace ..."As former senior State Department official Christian Whiton has observed, there are predictable consequences to having the “directory and traffic signals of the Internet” come under the control of such hostile forces, including the following:
- Greater control over the content of the Internet, including censorship, by governments who regard it as a threat to their holds on power.
- Impediments to technological innovation as bureaucrats and hostile governments seek to dictate what can and cannot be done with the net.
- UN taxation of domain name registrations and, in due course, other Internet transactions. Such international taxation will make the United Nations even less accountable and afford it the latitude to fund activities detrimental to U.S. interests and those of its allies.
- Control of the Internet can allow it to be used as an instrument of warfare. While the United States has refrained from making such use, allowing actual or potentially hostile powers to exercise such control may mean the Internet is simply disabled at a critical moment, or perhaps employed against us.
"One of the memes hitting the blogosphere recently has been that the US just “gave up control of the internet”.
"This week on Canto Talk, Legal Insurrection’s Mandy Nagy explained why that wasn’t the case. Legal Insurrection
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