AGs File Suit in Last-Ditch Bid to Stop Hand-Off of Internet Control
September 29, 2016: "Republican attorneys general are making a last-ditch bid to block the Obama administration from ceding U.S. oversight of the Internet’s domain name system, filing suit in federal court ahead of an imminent deadline for the hand-off. The AGs from Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma and Nevada asked a judge late Wednesday to step in and stop the transition to an international oversight body, after GOP lawmakers failed to stall the move as part of a short-term spending bill. “Trusting authoritarian regimes to ensure the continued freedom of the internet is lunacy,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement. “The president does not have the authority to simply give away America’s pioneering role in ensuring that the internet remains a place where free expression can flourish.” " ... More ... {source: foxnews.com}
Commentary: The Internet's domain name system is what is being discussed relative to the lawsuit: The domain name system ICANN is the entity that is being stopped from taking over the internet. On the surface of the ICANN functions, there is valid underlying concern over an internet 'takeover' as reported recently on the Senate floor of Congress.
..."The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN /ˈaɪkæn/ EYE-kan) is a nonprofit organization that is responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces of the Internet - thereby ensuring the network's stable and secure operation. ICANN performs the actual technical maintenance work of the central Internet address pools and DNS Root registries pursuant to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) function contract. Much of its work has concerned the Internet's global Domain Name System, including policy development for internationalization of the DNS system, introduction of new generic top-level domains (TLDs), and the operation of root name servers." ... More {source: ICANN.wikipedia}
Sen. Cruz Urges Colleagues to Stop Obama's Internet Giveaway
Internet Freedom Act H.R. 1212
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