Palin: Obama Decision To Surrender Internet "Colossal Error"

by JASmius

Not necessarily, 'cuda; it depends on what Dear Leader is trying to accomplish:

The Obama administration's decision to turn over responsibility for Internet domain names to the international community was denounced by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a "colossal foreign policy error,"  Politico reported.

The U.S. has administered the database of domain names and addresses since the late 1990s through the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The administration has now tasked ICANN to come up with a plan for the shift.

In a Facebook post, Palin said the decision was likely to have "long term negative repercussions for freedom." The administration was handing "a gift to authoritarian regimes who seek to stifle the freedom the Internet gives to voices around the world fighting for basic human rights."

Palin concluded her post: "No amount of Obama/liberal media spin can justify this."

Looks like even the most hardcore of Tea Partiers are still having trouble coming to grips with what Barack Hussein Obama truly is.

Let me, again, go all Jeopardy! on your heinies and put this in the form of a question: Do you think that Barack Obama is opposed to (other) "authoritarian regimes [which] seek to stifle the freedom of the Internet" gaining control of it to do precisely that?  I would direct your attention to a year or two ago - I can't recall exactly when it was - when the Obama Regime began making noises about wielding the power to "turn off" the web.  Anybody remember that?  It generated a not inconsiderable uproar, and the White House made the appearance of backing away from the idea.

Now they quietly announce in last Friday afternoon's weekly news dump that they're going to "transition" control of the 'Net to the "international community," which is to say, the United Nations, which is to say, pretty much every American enemy on the planet.  And what will they be apt to do?  Why....shut down the Internet.  Or, more precisely, ban content that they - and the Obama Regime - don't approve of.

In a nutshell, Barack Obama isn't "IRSing" his political enemies off of the Internet himself; he's outsourcing the task to the Russians, ChiComms, NoKos, and Muslims of all stripes:

Business Insider reported that China and Russia have been pushing for a more decentralized system for domain names and, possibly, for the U.N. to play a greater role.

The Commerce Department said it does not want the U.N. to take over and implied that the U.S. would not abdicate responsibility until a satisfactory system was in place, The Wall Street Journal reported.

And what do you think the Obamunists would consider "satisfactory"?  Yeah, I'd say that's right.

The move is meant to restore confidence in U.S. firms providing cloud and other Internet services in the wake of the Edward Snowden affair, and reassure other countries that Washington is not out to dominate the Internet, the Journal reported.

One more reason (besides outsourcing the treasonous public dissemination of every U.S. national security secret) why O turned loose Ed Snowden, coupled with the NSA revelations of spying on our erstwhile allies: to erode and squander international trust in the United States.  And now we're offering up our contrite repentance by coughing up the reparation of surrendering the Internet.

And why wouldn't Red Barry do this?  What is the web but a shining symbol - probably the last one remaining - of American exceptionalism, dynamism, innovation, accomplishment, a vast and robust medium for wealth creation and economic prosperity, a planetary ocean of free thought, speech, communication, ideas, and kitty photos?  How could Barack Obama not hate that with every fiber of his worthless being, even as he used it to scam billions in campaign loot of obligatorily hypocritical and questionable legality?

When blogs like this one are shut down from Moscow or Beijing or Tehran; when there are no more evangelical church websites, or a political conservative channel on Blog Talk Radio, or talk radio sites, or any Tea Party voice left online, you'll know who is ultimately responsible for it.  But you won't be able to object or protest, for you will have been silenced.

So let us raise unshirted hell, while we still can.