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During the great controversy over the Panama Canal in the mid-1970s, Ronald Reagan repeatedly said, “We bought it. We built it. We paid for it. We intend to keep it.” Unfortunately, the Democrats controlled the U.S. Senate and ratified a treaty to give it away to the drug-peddling Panama dictator. Now we are facing a similar issue: President Obama and the globalists are trying to get us to give away control of the Internet. We are looking for a national leader who is smart enough to follow Reagan’s example and defend America’s control of the Web. The U.S. created the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and has kept control over the technical procedures that allow computers around the world to connect to Web addresses. ICANN has managed the Internet’s Domain Name System since 1998, ensuring that the Internet runs efficiently without political pressure from any country. Now the Obama Commerce Department wants to give ICANN away and even invite Communist China and Russia to help us police the Internet. That’s like telling the fox to guard the chicken coop because those countries don’t believe in free speech and don’t even allow their own people to have free access to the Internet. That could be the most dangerous use yet of Obama’s now-famous pen. It’s also a great opportunity for someone to stand up for America like Reagan did. Unfortunately, giving away the Internet is another key part of Barack Obama’s plan to diminish America’s power and prestige in the world. He wants to spread around world power to our enemies as well as our friends, just as he seeks to spread the wealth around in our country. Rep. Anna Eshoo, the top Democrat on the House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, said, “while the internet was a product of American genius, no government or intergovernmental organization should control its future.” What nonsense! Of course America should control the valuable property that we built! Some Democrats are whining that “stakeholders deserve” a voice and a role in the governance of the Internet. No, they don’t. We built it; it’s ours. And all stakeholders and countries are better off if the U.S. controls the Web rather than foreign or United Nations globalists who did nothing to build the Internet into such a valuable asset. Among the many deceitful arguments used by the globalists is that taking the Internet away from the U.S. will advance us toward a goal of “no government control of the Internet.” If the United States doesn’t keep control of what we invented, the Internet will end up under Chinese or UN control. U.S. control of the Internet’s basic functions has kept the Web free for Americans and for the entire world. It’s up to us to keep it that way. |
