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Obama is going to give away the internet

Sep 15, 2016, 7:54 PM | Updated: Sep 16, 2016, 7:24 am

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Todd Herman says that we can’t operate in the modern world without unrestricted access to the internet, and we will face a massive cyber attack in our lifetime. (James Cridland, Flickr)

(James Cridland, Flickr)

We’re ticking down to a deadline when Obama has decided to give away the internet.

ICANN has been running the domain names racket, making gobs of money from it — an unbelievable example of a crony capitalism monopoly.

But now the U.S. government wants to end its contract with ICANN and give up control of the domain naming responsibility to a global group of directors. This will affect freedom of speech worldwide. 

And this goes to the heart of Obama, redistribute. Give away America’s prestige and money to other countries. 

Do you want China or Russia involved in any way with the internet globally?

In the meantime, an unknown organization has been probing the infrastructure that makes up the internet. They’ve been flooding computers with traffic in an attempt to lock computers up so they cannot function.  These recent attempts have been larger and more sophisticated than ever previously tried before.

We can’t operate in the modern world without unrestricted access to the internet. And we will face a massive cyber attack in our lifetime. 

So you have to ask yourself, “Why would Obama be looking to give away the soul of the internet?” Does he even have our best interests at heart?

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