The UN and Obama's awful decision to turn our internet over to them last month

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It's scary to me that the GOP and Trump has shown very little outrage

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An office within the Commerce Department, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration?, still has limited oversight over the system of internet addresses?. But day-to-day management long ago was ceded to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, known as ICANN. It administers the directories that steer internet traffic to its destination.

Without it, buying items online, sending or receiving emails, browsing websites, sharing digital photos and watching movies online would be impossible.

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Since its creation, ICANN? has quietly administered the internet’s address system without significant controversy. The premise for the transition has been to turn over such key functions to the private technical experts and businesses that helped build the internet, rather than governments. The diminished American role also has coincided since 2013 with heightened suspicions about the U.S. government’s designs on the internet, after Edward Snowden revealed that the National Security Agency had hacked into networks overseas used by U.S. corporate data centers.

Alternatives to ICANN’s role include turning over control to a U.N agency, the International Telecommunication Union, where countries with less regard for freedom of speech would have a greater say and the private groups have little influence. Also in play: the risk that foreign governments may develop their own private networks that might not function seamlessly with the internet.

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Why don't you explain it then pusswipe?

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