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Obama Administration to give away control of Internet
http://dailysignal.com/2016/08/15/co...l-of-internet/
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Arguing that internet freedom and the constitutional power of the purse are at risk, a coalition of more than two dozen civil society groups and activists are calling on Congress to lawyer up and sue the Obama administration.
The Commerce Department has violated federal law, the coalition of groups argued in an Aug. 10 letter to lawmakers, by finalizing plans to relinquish U.S. control of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
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That body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, has operated under direct supervision of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration since 1998.
But the Obama administration announced two years ago that it intended to transfer that stewardship to a “global multi-stakeholder community.” Though Congress has acted twice to stop that effort, the administration moved forward with the transition plan.
U.S. supervision of ICANN and IANA is set to expire Sept. 30 and government officials argue that Congress only prohibited them from completing the transaction before that deadline.
After consulting “informally with both the House and the Senate” last year, a National Telecommunications and Information Administration administrator, Lawrence Strickling, concluded that Congress had not intended to leave the agency “like our hands are tied.”
“That’s not how our system works,” The Heritage Foundation’s Brett Schaefer, who also signed the Aug. 10 letter, told The Daily Signal. “Because there are check and balances, Congress has exercised a check by adopting that appropriations rider and the president signed it into law.”
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more sources: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a6829466.html
This is dangerous y'all  and Obama is supposedly a good president? 
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