Today is a very special day, today is the day that the internet died.
Now, I don't make political posts here often, because this really isn't the place for it, but somethings just have to said. The internet was invented by the USA, and because of the rights of free speech that were once very important to the government of the USA, everyone was allowed to speak their minds and even say the most stupid or outrageous stuff on the internet.
However, there were (and are) people in our government who do not like free speech and who do not like our citizens having such total access to it. Worse yet, most governments in the world (like 90 percent) do not allow their citizens free speech, and they hate the internet with a passion, but because the USA controlled it, they could do nothing about it.
Well, President Obama came to their rescue. Tomorrow (October 1, 2016) Obama, totally on his own, disregarding what the citizens want, is giving the internet away. It will no longer be controlled by the USA.
I'm not sure who will end up with it, the UN wants to get their hands on it, and a more evil and corrupt organization really doesn't exist in the world. China wants it, so does Russia, so do all of the governments in the middle east. As the organization that controls the internet (ICANN) is up for sale, who knows where it will end up. But where ever it ends up, they don't have a right to free speech.
Now some of you (say 99 percent of the world's population) have no idea how the internet works, or why giving ICANN control away matters. Well you see, ICANN gets to say who connects to the internet, and who does not. And their word is LAW, they are the god of the internet and it is impossible to gainsay them. So if they don't like your website, they just pull your IP address, which is the way all computers connect to the internet.
So yes, your content will still be on your machine, or your server, but no one will ever be able to see it. And it only takes minutes to take down your website (Drudge Report, the biggest site on the internet will probably be among the first to fall). Also, buying a domain only costs a few dollars a year now, well if the UN gets control, they'll put a 'tax' on that fee, and you'll see domains start costing thousands of dollars a year, if not millions.
Now I don't expect these changes to start instantly tomorrow. But they will come, and they will come soon. They might start off slowly, but I can guarantee you that in a year, you will notice the difference. In a few years, the internet will be nothing at all like it is today. We all just lost something very important, because of a malignant narcissist who hates the USA, hates Freedom, and hates free speech, and he found a way to destroy it, and nobody did anything.
As always, freedom does not die with a huge explosion or a great battle...
... just a whimper.
I was under the impression that the only reason we bothered to hold control over it in the first place was that it made secretly monitoring foreign governments and persons of interest not just possible on a global scale, but completely automated. And that the Snowden incident caused those reasons to cease to exist, as the fallout caused massive foreign censuring of American controlled networking and data center services. As in, we were being economically blackmailed over our abuses and continued control over it. Most recently seen with that wonderful global malware trojan thingy that has been floating around for a decade. Free speech on the internet's been sunk for a few years now. Between Google's Liberal slanted search results and yahoo's conservative slanted search results, mass deletions and bot-lawyer take downs of content regardless of the validity of the claims. No place on the internet is public property, no one has a right to free speech on private property they do not own. You missed the bus, it's been dead for a while.
ReplyDeleteYou are incorrect. Controlling the ICANN does not have anything to do with monitoring, that's the NSA, and they have special servers for that (you used to be able to see the servers, if you knew how to ping them, they have since changed that).
ReplyDeleteThis all has to do with the simple ability to have a webserver online, or go online.