All your domain names are belong to Obama…
posted at 10:45 am on February 7, 2011 by MadisonConservative
Of course. After all, technology is really just a “distraction”.
The Obama administration is quietly seeking the power for it and other governments to veto future top-level domain names, a move that raises questions about free expression, national sovereignty, and the role of states in shaping the future of the Internet.
At stake is who will have authority over the next wave of suffixes to supplement the venerable .com, .org, and .net. At least 115 proposals are expected this year, including .car, .health, .nyc, .movie, and .web, and the application process could be finalized at a meeting in San Francisco next month.
The article points out the pointless dithering by the Bush administration for the last several years to deny the use of the .xxx domain, and this is equally pointless. However, given the Obama administration’s fetish for the power to shut down the internet entirely, as well as to deny private companies the ability to offer varying levels of service to their customers, this is just another coal on the fire. The White House is demonstrating that they are patently uncomfortable with the internet continuing to be a “wild frontier”. They want control, and they want as much of it as possible. Remember those geek friends of ours who marveled at how tech-savvy Obama was, and voted for him almost entirely on that basis? Enjoy the schadenfreude.
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Insert witty screen name here on February 7, 2011 at 11:03 AM
Meanwhile your freedom is being turned into a caliphate.
tarpon on February 7, 2011 at 11:05 AM
Ever get the uneasy feeling that the Oppressives are working on the idea that the Enemy of my enemy is my friend?
Colbyjack on February 7, 2011 at 11:10 AM
MadCon, somewhere between a very few facts and fair amount of speculation in the article you’re working from in this post, you went a looong way tooo faaar with your conclusion.
audiculous on February 7, 2011 at 8:34 PM
Sure audi.
This administration is all about free markets, limited government and private property rights.
powerpro on February 7, 2011 at 9:52 PM
this administration is pretty much like all the others.
and the story here isn’t really about a power grab by the administration.
Read the story MadCon linked to and read
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/06/AR2011020603940.html
and any other report.
audiculous on February 8, 2011 at 11:49 AM
Meanwhile your freedom is being turned into a caliphate.
tarpon on February 7, 2011 at 11:05 AM
Then, there is the latest symptom of submissive behavior on the part of Mr. Obama and what appear to be other “friends of shariah” in his administration. As my colleagues, Patrick Poole and Christine Brim, have illuminated at BigPeace.com, we now have the Virginia Military Institute preparing to “celebrate” the 1300th anniversary of “Tariq ibn Ziyad’s crossing of the Straits of Gibraltar” ushering in some 800 years of Moorish conquest and occupation of Spain and, in VMI’s words, “setting into motion the fusion between two worlds.”
I’ve lifted this from a piece written by Frank Gaffney, Jr. and posted at Jewish World Review.
Access the full article at: http://www.JewishWorldReview.com/
oldleprechaun on February 8, 2011 at 1:35 PM
Absolutely. I mean, to support a conclusion like that, the same administration would have be working to take over, oh, the health care industry, or the automotive industry…stuff like that.
MadisonConservative on February 8, 2011 at 2:50 PM
It’s even worse than this, since the sharia nations have been laboring to achieve a veto power over aspects of the Internet too. This was the predictable (and widely predicted) result of the US relinquishing its controling relationship with ICANN in September 2009.
I suspect we will see a form of samizdat Internet in our lifetimes. There aren’t too many people who would man the barricades for a .xxx domain, but there are plenty of governments out there — potentially including our own — that want to suppress TLDs, subordinate domain names, and content.
J.E. Dyer on February 8, 2011 at 3:16 PM
as long as you want to base your conclusions on suspicion rather than evidence, and you willingly admit to it, go right ahead and enjoy yourself.
as long as you don’t understand the auto industry bailout as something more complex than an indulgence in power grabbing, stay happy.
audiculous on February 8, 2011 at 3:19 PM
Of course it wasn’t just power grabbing. Some of the goodies Obama took, he had to forward on to UAW.
gryphon202 on February 8, 2011 at 4:09 PM
I agree that the Team Obama want control of the internet..Very good blog post MadCon!..
Dire Straits on February 9, 2011 at 12:07 PM
Sorry for the typo!..
Dire Straits on February 9, 2011 at 12:08 PM
Not to worry, Dire. We just thought you were British…
J.E. Dyer on February 9, 2011 at 1:21 PM
LOL!..:)
Dire Straits on February 10, 2011 at 12:22 PM
Right now, it’s pretty easy to memorize an IP address – about like learning a phone number. But with the IPv6 change, something like 74.84.198.233 will change to an address like 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334. Domain names are going to be more important than ever. So I’d be really concerned about this, except for my total confidence in whatever new government agency is developed to issue and control them. Hey, if it’s good enough for my health care, it’s good enough for my website, right?
Laura Curtis on February 10, 2011 at 9:48 PM
Test..
Dire Straits on February 11, 2011 at 9:50 AM