You Should Be Worried' Warns FCC Commissioner On Internet Giveaway - China Already Drafting Totalitarian Laws To Govern Internet
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
Sep 29, 2016
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Does the headline seem overly dramatic? It isn't, the planned turnover of U.S. oversight of the Internet is not just the latest attack on the free speech rights guaranteed to Americans under the U.S. Constitution, but it is the culmination of every single attack on freedom we have been witnessing over the last decades.

Unless congress steps in and prevents the turnover of Internet oversight to "foreign governments who might not share our values," meaning free speech, on October 1, 2016, Barack Obama, who has consistently attacked our constitutional rights from freedom of religion, to our right to bear arms, will have put the final nail in the coffin of Freedom of Speech.

When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner publicly states "you should be worried" as he did on Wednesday’s "Sean Hannity Show," a smart person would sit up and take notice.

Via Breitbart:

Pai said, "This proposal is to essentially give up the US oversight role that it’s had for the last 20 years, basically for the entire commercial lifespan of the Internet to a company called ICANN, which is an international organization, which includes a number of foreign countries. And, it’s an unprecedented move, and one that, as Mr. DeMint pointed out, is irreversible. Once we give up this oversight role, we can’t get it back."

He added that Internet oversight is a case of, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Pai further stated, “If you cherish free expression, and free speech rights generally, you should be worried, I think, when there's — this oversight role's going to be ceded to potentially, foreign governments who might not share our values."

Pai, and others vehemently critizing Obama's Internet giveaway are not saying that as of October 1, 2016, readers will not be able to access their favorite sites, they are saying this giveaway is "irreversible" and the beginning of the end of Americans' free speech as we know it because control will be handed over to a global body, including many countries that have no free speech rights.

According to Epoch Times, a NY based newspaper owned by Chinese-Americans opposed to the Communist regime in China, "Over the last two years, Chinese leaders have drafted an authoritarian set of laws that governs every facet of the internet."

Imagine that, they have been preparing for years, which leads us to the conclusion that this was a preplanned, scheduled event, made for no other reason than to stifle free speech in America. Obama couldn't do it any other way, so he is once again handing our sovereign rights as a nation, ruled under the U.S. constitution, to countries hostile to free speech.

Frank Gaffney of Center For Security Policy is also issuing the same type of warnings, stating "What they’re preparing to do is to cede, or surrender, the last vestige of American control, or even influence, over what is done with critical functions of the Internet.

It gets pretty arcane, but the point is, if you think that the freedom of the Internet – whether it’s the ability of people to communicate freely information on it, or whether you think of it as an engine for free enterprise, let alone if you understand the contribution that it makes these days to national security – including, by the way, the operations of our critical infrastructure – you will understand that the United States retaining a measure of quality control as to what’s going on with how the Internet is populated with names and numbers, domains, websites and the like, is a very important thing.