UN Set To Take Control Of Internet, Vows To Ban Offensive Speech

The United Nations may soon take control of the Internet after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) stops being controlled by the U.S. government this October.  Despite the Obama administration promising that the U.N. would never take control of the Internet, they admitted via a recent Freedom of Information Act request that control of the Internet will most likely pass to the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Breitbart.com reports: While the administration and its defenders have denied that the UN will have authority over ICANN, the Wall Street Journal‘s L. Gordon Crovitz points out that ICANN will need to be run by a state agency in order to retain its antitrust exemption, which makes it almost certainly that the UN will step in to take control. Crovitz notes: It’s shocking the administration admits it has no plan for how Icann retains its antitrust exemption. The reason Icann can operate the entire World Wide Web root zone is that it has the status of a legal monopolist, stemming from its contract with the Commerce Department that makes Icann an “instrumentality” of government. … Without the U.S. contract, Icann would seek to be overseen by another governmental group so as [...]