OBAMA-APPOINTED JUDGE LETS INTERNET GIVEAWAY PROCEED
BOB UNRUH
WND.com
9/30/2016
A federal judge in Texas who was appointed by Barack Obama, George C. Hanks Jr., on Friday refused to delay the presidentâs planned giveaway of U.S. oversight of a key piece of the Internet, setting up the transfer when a critical contract expires heading into the weekend.
The states of Arizona, Nevada, Oklahoma and Texas had sued to block the U.S. from giving up oversight of the non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which maintains databases for Internet domain names, the Internetâs phone book.
At the tech site Arstechnica, the concerns about the loss of U.S. control were discounted.
âRemember the projected Y2K bug disaster? The worldâs computers would supposedly go haywire as the clock ticked to January 1, 2000, thus destroying the world and ensuing widespread panic. Didnât happen. Fast forward to today, however, and another doomsday scenario is afoot (albeit with much less fanfare),â said the blog.
âIf many politicians are to be believed, an Internet disaster is set to commence this Saturday. Thatâs when a tiny branch of the U.S. Commerce Department officially hands over its oversight of the Internetâs âaddress bookâ or root zone â the highest level of the domain naming system (DNS) structure â to a nonprofit, a Los Angeles-based body called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).â
But others were raising concerns.
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