NSA Fallout: Surveillance drives international Internet group to take control from U.S.

[Katashi_itto]

The United States nominally controls the Internet, through the sponsorship of the Department of Commerce of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, an international standards-setting body.

Well, ICANN is about through with them.

Earlier this week, leaders of organizations responsible for coordination of the global Internet technical infrastructure met in Montevideo, Uruguay and decided to hasten their planned withdrawal from the Commerce Department’s nominal oversight. In a statement, the group “expressed strong concern over the undermining of the trust and confidence of Internet users globally due to recent revelations of pervasive monitoring and surveillance.”


ICANNs members called for accelerating the globalization of its functions “towards an environment in which all stakeholders, including all governments, participate on an equal footing.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/12/surveillance-drives-international-internet-group-to-take-control-from-u-s/

[cantbeserious]

1. When First We Practice To Deceive ...

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2. "Gee, who could have predicted this?" nt

[BelgianMadCow]

3. Good news K&R nt

[RC]

4. Yheeee, Yaw!

About time. We have long proven that we are not to be trusted and not fit to lead.
Between the tea-baggers, NSA, the MIC and other dysfunctional undesirables, all headquartered in this country, how do we maintain a competent world leadership for the benefit of all?
Answer: We can't. And that lack of competent leadership is easy to see by the destruction we leave in our wake.

[Katashi_itto]

5. I think it's funny that I had posted a while back that there we rumblings of a 2nd internet

and this sort of thing under consideration, and the pro authoritarian crowd wouldn't believe it.