Thanks to Obama, UN Begins Process of Handing Internet Control to Ruthless Dictators

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There had been no serious complaints about American stewardship of the Internet, no actual abuses perpetrated by American overseers. But Obama abdicated this stewardship, and what we predicted back in 2009 is coming to pass.

Related: Obama’s Internet Surrender: a “fate worse than death” for the Internet

UN Begins Process of Handing Internet Control to Ruthless Dictators

By Rick Moran, PJM, December 28, 2019

We’ve known this has been coming for a couple of years. Dissatisfied with control of the internet largely in the hands of western democracies — especially the United States — the dictators and religious fanatics of the world have begun the process to seize control of the internet where, I’m sure, you won’t be able to insult Islam, call Vladimir Putin a thug, or criticize the Chinese communists.

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The United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution that would set up a “committee of experts” whose mission would be to stop “the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes.”

Since many countries make it a crime to criticize the government or insult Islam, the resolution does not bode well for internet freedom in the near future.

Summit:

Human Rights Watch said the list of sponsors for the resolution is “a rogue’s gallery of some of the earth’s most repressive governments” and “gives countries legal cover for internet blackouts and censorship, while creating the potential for criminalizing free speech.”

Governments like China already censor and turn off the Internet during times of civil unrest while doling out ‘social credit score’ punishments for those who criticize the state.

The Communist country is also rolling out a plan to force its citizens to pass a facial recognition test to use the Internet. Criticized the authorities? No Internet for you.

There’s a lot at stake for the free world and the U.S.

As we  previously highlighted, the United Nations global compact on migration expanded the definition of ‘hate speech’ to make it a crime to criticize mass immigration.

Under a second Trump administration the U.S. is almost certain to ignore any UN attempt to impose its hegemony over the Internet, but if the Democrats win in 2020 it could be a very different story.

The Obama administration eagerly gave away the power to control domain names by internationalizing ICANN — Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. What sorts of mischief do you think Democrats could stir up by kowtowing to Iran, China, or Russia?

The internet is no longer in its infancy. What it will look like in 10 years will largely be determined by what we do today. There are a lot of people who want to destroy the inherently free nature of information exchange because they don’t like what some people are writing or showing.

Perhaps the best efforts of dictators to control what their citizens see online will fail to stifle dissent. But is that a chance we really want to take?

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Jay Dillon
Jay Dillon
4 years ago

In the long run, we will not be able to avoid actual war over this issue. It is that huge and that dangerous.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Jay Dillon

It’s freedom and liberty vs. Communism and Islam.

Tradisjonal Nordmann
Tradisjonal Nordmann
4 years ago
Reply to  Jay Dillon

Yeah, you are absolutely right about that, and sadly it was planned long ago. Seems harder and harder to avoid it as that plan comes closer and closer to fruition.
:-/

tituspullo
tituspullo
4 years ago

another gift from the democrats and the illegal alien muslim they worship

RobertLaity
RobertLaity
4 years ago
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RobertLaity
RobertLaity
4 years ago
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felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Why are we in the U.N.?
We love to only blame the DEMS but how come the GOP didn’t object to Obama?
Our Tech gods are busily dreaming up algorithms to censor us and hostile countries to us.
The EU views the U.S. as more of an ENEMY than Russia and wants to use China’s 5G communications.
Why does MUSLIM NATO still exist?
Why is the U.S. the major funder of the U.N. and NATO? I am so confused… LOL!

U.N. Approves China-Backed Internet Convention, Alarming Rights Advocates
BREITBART NEWS
28 Dec 2019

(AFP) — The United Nations on Friday approved a Russian-led bid that aims to create a new convention on cybercrime, alarming rights groups and Western powers that fear a bid to restrict online freedom.

The General Assembly approved the resolution sponsored by Russia and backed by China, which would set up a committee of international experts in 2020.
The panel will work to set up “a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes,” the resolution said.

The United States, European powers and rights groups fear that the language is code for legitimizing crackdowns on expression, with numerous countries defining criticism of the government as “criminal.”

China heavily restricts internet searches to avoid topics sensitive to its communist leadership, as well as news sites with critical coverage.

A number of countries have increasingly tried to turn off the internet, with India cutting off access in Kashmir in August after it stripped autonomy to the Muslim-majority region and Iran taking much of the country offline as it cracked down on protests in November.

“It is precisely our fear that (a new convention) would allow the codification at an international and global level of these types of controls that’s driving our opposition and our concerns about this resolution,” a US official said.

Any new UN treaty that spells out internet controls would be “inimical to the United States’ interests because that doesn’t tally with the fundamental freedoms we see as necessary across the globe,” he said.

Human Rights Watch called the UN resolution’s list of sponsors “a rogue’s gallery of some of the earth’s most repressive governments.”

“If the plan is to develop a convention that gives countries legal cover for internet blackouts and censorship, while creating the potential for criminalizing free speech, then it’s a bad idea,” said Human Rights Watch’s Louis Charbonneau.

The United States argues that the world should instead expand its sole existing accord on cybercrime, the 2001 Budapest Convention, which spells out international cooperation to curb copyright violations, fraud and child pornography.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/12/28/u-n-approves-china-backed-internet-convention-alarming-rights-advocates/

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

He was and is the”Manchurian candidate.”

Slaappy Huo the Racist
Slaappy Huo the Racist
4 years ago

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CreoleGumbo
CreoleGumbo
4 years ago

Fantastice photo that really makes the point.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago

One picture is worth a thousands words. You nailed it, Slaappy.

0349 JAT
0349 JAT
4 years ago

Want to find out who is in charge?……
Find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

RobertLaity
RobertLaity
4 years ago
Reply to  0349 JAT

FB Gestapo stops people from criticizing Muslims. What does that tell you?

Dougral
Dougral
4 years ago

It would be quite easy for the UN to create a worldwide Internet censorship system. A large pool of nations agrees to a set of content standards and an international treaty is signed by those nations. The treaty requires telcom companies connecting to the networks of a signatory nation to police all content being sent to a signatory nation. Since large US telcoms connect to many nations and I believe that most countries may well sign the treaty, our ISPs begin to warn and cut off customers whose content get flagged. Following the model of Facebook, Youtube and Twitter the US courts refuse to do anything because its private action, not government action that is performing the censorship. If Democrats are anywhere in the legislative loop it would be impossible to get a law passed forbidding ISPs from censoring US originated content. Thus we would all be muzzled, just like we can be on Facebook or Twitter.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago
Reply to  Dougral

….can be? We already are.

Francis
Francis
4 years ago

The UN needs to be pulverized and bulldozed into the East River.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago
Reply to  Francis

I’ve said for years kick them all out….bulldoze the building and turn it into a parking lot…it would be far more useful. Not to mention all the electronic spying equipment in the building that would be destroyed.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

Turning over ICANN to the UN may well be recorded as the greatest evil committed by Ovommit; however, there is a solution and one that is not difficult to implement. ICANN is a protocol that can be duplicated and vastly improved. In fact, it will soon be yesterday’s technology. A new standard can be introduced and adopted under the control of a decentralized blockchain similar to bitcoin that cannot be censored. Several startups are working on this presently. You can find out about them by visiting https://miningbonanza.info

CreoleGumbo
CreoleGumbo
4 years ago

Another reason why the US needs to get out of the UN.
Another reason to completely review this issue of Obama’s eligibility to have been POTUS in the first place and declare all actions taken by him as illegal.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago

Thanks to Obama, UN Begins Process of Handing Internet Control to Ruthless Dictators
Thanks to Comrade Barry….a lot of things were handed over to the UN…..

Badger
Badger
4 years ago

Why can’t Trump put a stop to this? Silicon Valley left-Liberals have done a great deal of damage to the Internet but nothing like what the EU will do given the chance. As for Russia and China, that goes without saying.

patd
patd
4 years ago

FUK the UN get them out of the US and the US out of the UN!!!!!

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