So, President Obama would like us to Cede control of the Internet to other authorities. And what, ask you, is wrong with that? After all, the Diversity Czar thinks it's time for those in control to step down and let others have a chance at control, right? I believe those are close to his actual words. To tell you the truth, it's so traumatic, what all these Czars are doing to my country, my mind is doing it's best to block it out. I personally (and mind you, this is PERSONAL OPINION) think that anyone who spouts communist theories and is in the government ought to be tried for treason. I did after all, spend 4 years, and my husband spent 20 years, in the United States Navy fighting all enemies of freedom, both foreign and domestic. But I digress.
First a little history: According to "A Brief History of the Internet" by Walt Howe and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-
Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Based on a work at www.walthowe.com.) "J.C.R. Licklider of MIT, first proposed a global network of computers in 1962, and moved over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in late 1962 to head the work to develop it. Leonard Kleinrock of MIT and later UCLA developed the theory of packet switching, which was to form the basis of Internet connections. Lawrence Roberts of MIT connected a Massachusetts computer with a California computer in 1965 over dial-up telephone lines. It showed the feasibility of wide area networking, but also showed that the telephone line's circuit switching was inadequate. Kleinrock's packet switching theory was confirmed. Roberts moved over to DARPA in 1966 and developed his plan for ARPANET. These visionaries and many more left unnamed here are the real founders of the Internet."
Wow, so the founders of the Internet are from Massechusetts. They are going against Ted Kennedy. Apparently in 1968, Ted Kennedy sent them a congratulatory telegram when he found out.
"E-mail was adapted for ARPANET by Ray Tomlinson of BBN in 1972." ARPANET is the name of the Internet in the beginning.
"The Internet matured in the 70's as a result of the TCP/IP architecture first proposed by Bob Kahn at BBN and further developed by Kahn and Vint Cerf at Stanford and others throughout the 70's. It was adopted by the Defense Department in 1980 replacing the earlier Network Control Protocol (NCP) and universally adopted by 1983."
So, as you can see, it was designed by Americans, developed by Americans, and controlled by Americans since the late 1960's. One can say that's a monopoly, or a good thing. Let's look at the difference between our country and other countries.
We have free speech in our country. I have this blog, where I can criticize the policies of our government without fear that black helicopters will land outside my house and take me away in the middle of the night. At least not yet. I don't need to worry that men in black suits will appear at my door and rush me out in handcuffs for my opinions because they are in opposition to the current administration. At least not yet.
On Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010, the Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko announced that he signed an order stating that he would be monitoring all Internet use. Is that free speech? He set up a site explaining what would be available on the Internet from now on....is that free speech? Is that what America wants? That's what we'll get if Russia gets control of the Internet. That's probably what we'll get if the United Nations gets control of the Internet.
According to http://www.chinatechnews.com/2009/09/11/10538-chinas-internet-cafe-associations-publish-joint-declaration China is cracking down on illegal internet cafes. Thus "promoting the healthy development of the Internet cafe industry in China, these associations announced in the declaration that they will voluntarily purify the Chinese Internet cafe market, stimulate the civilized operation of Internet cafes, prevent young people from abusing Internet cafes, improve the environment of Internet cafes, eliminate potential security risks, and protect the legitimate rights of Chinese consumers." They will also "resist vulgar Internet content, eliminate harmful information from the Internet, and protect intellectual property rights and copyrights in Internet cafes to create a good Internet environment. They will also self-discipline themselves and encourage fair competition."
Now, this after Wikipedia states that the Chinese does not censor the Internet. I would say this skirts really close to censorship. Do we want that in America? Do we want someone telling us that that particular site is unauthorized? That particular information is vulgar? What would the left think? Someone swoops in and says, "I'm sorry, you can't pee on the Mona Lisa and call it art." I'm sorry, we've suddenly decided that homosexuality is devient behavior and it's not allowed anymore. Wow, what would the left say to that? Free speech would go down the tubes. Of course right now, free speech is in jeopardy because the right wants it, but what happens when the left wants to say something. Have they thought of that? Does China promote the homosexual agenda? I wonder.... That's what we would have if China got control of the Internet.
Another option is to give control over to the United Nations. Really? According to http://news.cnet.com/Will-the-U.N.-run-the-Internet/2010-1071_3-5780157.html several countries have weighed in with their opinions.
• Syria: "There's more and more spam every day. Who are the victims? Developing and least-developed countries, too. There is no serious intention to stop this spam by those who are the transporters of the spam, because they benefit...The only solution is for us to buy equipment from the countries which send this spam in order to deal with spam. However, this, we believe, is not acceptable."
• Brazil, responding to ICANN's approval of .xxx domains: "For those that are still wondering what Triple-X means, let's be specific, Mr. Chairman. They are talking about pornography. These are things that go very deep in our values in many of our countries. In my country, Brazil, we are very worried about this kind of decision-making process where they simply decide upon creating such new top-level generic domain names."
• China: "We feel that the public policy issue of Internet should be solved jointly by the sovereign states in the U.N. framework...For instance, spam, network security and cyberspace--we should look for an appropriate specialized agency of the United Nations as a competent body."
Ghana: "There was unanimity for the need for an additional body...This body would therefore address all issues relating to the Internet within the confines of the available expertise which would be anchored at the U.N."
Let's see. Erase all of our propriety rights. It doesn't matter that we devoloped it, we invented it, and we have free speech in this country. They don't like free speech. Syria says they don't like being spammed and don't want to buy our software to stop the spam. So, develop your own software to stop the spam. Oh, we have the technology and you don't? Send some of your people to our schools. Oh, that would mean contributing to a capitalist form of government and it goes against your principals? Get over it. Brazil doesn't like the triple X sites? Don't go to them, because we don't believe in censorship. The solution isn't spread censorship to all nations, whether they want it or not. And China? I think they just said we weren't competent...they can loan us money, but we can't be trusted to run the Internet? I think we need to give them the brush off. And why they heck do we need to listen to Ghana? Their population: Population: 23,832,495. The population of Texas: Population: 22,118,509. I think Texas could just about kick your butt in a fight. Why do we need to listen to Ghana? Do they have a dog in this hunt?
So, monopoly doesn't apply in this instance. It's a matter of we know how to play fair and they don't. Do you want someone who doesn't have our principles making the rules for the game? Do you want someone who cheats telling you how to play the game? Oh, we have those people in Congress already. Well, we can fix that situation. Elect Patriots.
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