03-15-2014, 08:06 AM
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?While the Obama administration says it is merely removing federal oversight of a non-profit, we should assume ICANN would end up as part of the United Nations,? Whiton said. ?If the U.N. gains control what amounts to the directory and traffic signals of the Internet, it can impose whatever taxes it likes. It likely would start with a tax on registering domains and expand from there.?
ICANN?s Lebanese-born CEO Fadi Chehadé had already recently discussed setting up an office in Geneva ? the location of the largest U.N. presence outside New York. If folded into the U.N.?s International Telecommunication Union, the organization would have access to a significant revenue stream outside of member contributions for the first time.
?What little control there is over the U.N. would be gone,? Whiton said.
The greater danger posed by the giveaway lies with the security of the Internet itself. While the U.S. has never used ICANN in a war or crisis situation, the potential exists for it to obstruct Internet commerce or deter foreign cyber attacks ? powerful tools in the globalized information age.
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http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/15/ex...or-to-web-tax/ |
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