The USA Flubs On The Internet

Did you hear the news? The United States has opened the books of privacy on every invention created since 1960 and is giving them to the world. Nothing is proprietary. It is only right and just that we redistribute our technological and industrial knowledge so that mankind can prosper. Oh, did I mention that there will be a world tax associated with this process. Don't laugh. The US is giving up it's rights to the dominance of the computer. It doesn't belong to us, anymore. It'd be sort of like Henry Ford creating the assembly line system then calling up General Motors to tell them how it's done.

"The United States is planning to give up its last remaining authority over the technical management of the Internet.

The Commerce Department announced Friday that it will give the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an international nonprofit group, control over the database of names and addresses that allows computers around the world to connect to each other.

Administration officials say U.S. authority over the Internet address system was always intended to be temporary and that ultimate power should rest with the "global Internet community."
http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/when-u-s-steps-back-will-russia-and-china-control-the-internet-20140317