Fascist Obama's Internet Takeover & Stifling Free Speech

[Gordon Ray Kissinger]

ICANN-Protect Our Movement


This should strike fear into all of you as it did me.

When I heard about the BHO administration’s interest in taking over the Internet, I was one who said they could never touch the Internet because it was outside their governance.

I was wrong.

I forgot that ICANN was California-based and government-connected, and if the Obama government does what they want to do (“one-world”), third world fundamentalist countries and repressive governments like that of China will have input over the content of our web sites, e-mail, political discussions, etc.

A month or two ago, I tried to start a database of e-mail addresses, phone and FAX numbers, etc. so we would have an emergency way to contact each other if something like this happened. When one person complained, the 912 Project booted me off the state sites except for Florida. (I was on about 20 state sites) Now maybe they will realize what is coming.

My suggestion is this: in addition to whatever activities we are all involved in as groups around the country, we go to our groups NOW and get complete information on every member. Keep it OFF the Internet - type it and print out a few copies, saving it in a special place. Send copies to a few trusted group members. (if they take over the Internet and you have this info on it, they will have all that information instantly!!!).

Realize that if they are able to control what we e-mail and what we view, and if we do not have an alternative way to communicate, they control our political movement!

Diana Evans




Ceding the Internet to “Global Governance”
The Heritage Foundation
October 28, 2009



Last month, President Obama proudly announced at the United Nations the steps taken under his administration to “embrace a new era of engagement” in international affairs by correcting the actions of past administration that might lead people to “question the character and cause” of America including supporting the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, addressing global warming through the U.N., joining the Human Rights Council, signing the Disabilities Convention, supporting the Millennium Development Goals, and paying America’s arrears to the United Nations without asking the organization to implement reforms to prevent those payments from being misused.

Well, we can add another dubious decision to the list of sacrifices the Obama Administration has made to alter of international engagement. Today it was announced that the Obama Administration had agreed to cede much U.S. control over the non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that regulates and manages the Domain Name System under which Internet Protocol addresses and registration of top-level domains like .org and .com are assigned. According to a story in the Guardian:

The deal, part of a contract negotiated with the US department of commerce, effectively pushes California-based Icann towards a new status as an international body with greater representation from companies and governments around the globe.

Icann had previously been operating under the auspices of the American government, which had control of the net thanks to its initial role in developing the underlying technologies used for connecting computers together.

But the fresh focus will give other countries a more prominent role in determining what takes place online, and even the way in which it happens – opening the door for a virtual United Nations, where many officials gather to discuss potential changes to the internet. Under the previous arrangement, the U.S. government retained veto power over ICANN’s decisions. Although the U.S. government was very hands-off with managing ICANN, the relationship helped insulate the Internet from political influence of states threatened or frustrated by the freedom of that medium. As discussed in a 2005 Heritage WebMemo, the United Nations has sought for some time to acquire authority over ICANN at the behest of a number of countries who wish to tax or regulate it. As noted in the paper:

For decades, the Internet has developed with a minimum of government interference. The core governance of the medium has been performed by non-governmental entities and overseen by the U.S. government, which has exercised a light regulatory touch. It is no coincidence that the medium has prospered from this benign neglect, growing from a research curiosity into a major force in the world economy and an invaluable venue for the exchange of information….

The result of a UN-controlled and regulated Internet would be that non-democratic countries that oppose the right to free speech such as China and grasping, anti-market impulses like those of the European Union would have a greater voice in guiding the Internet in a direction away from “freedom, education, and innovation.” If the Internet cannot be a government-free zone, it should be governed in a manner that minimizes restrictions rather than imposing international standards that restrict Internet freedom. Given the stakes, the U.S. must stand firm and reject efforts to internationalize governance of the Internet.

Quite simply, the decision of the Obama administration increases the vulnerability of the Internet to political pressure, censorship, and strangling regulation and taxation. Welcome to “responsibility and leadership in the 21st century” under the Obama Administration.