*Here we go.
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-us-will-cede-control-of-the-internet-for-the-first-time-1
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"The policy will not affect the actual content of the internet, but represents a shift for the building blocks that comprise it, like domain names, which have become controversial with ICANN’s recent additions. (…) Chehadé said the change was inevitable: with the vast majority of new internet users in countries like China and India, it was no longer politically feasible for the group to keep its US ties.
" “The status quo was no longer sustainable,” he said. “The internet is no longer a side show. This is the digital century; it’s the next industrial revolution. (((Actually it was the most recent industrial revolution, while handing the Internet over to control of nation-states is a counterrevolution. Led mostly by spies, actually, but let's face it, the NSA was always there and "the Internet" was never designed to face them down.))) The prevalence of the internet as a platform that enables the digital century (((there's not gonna be any such thing; it's the Detroit Big Five model plus the cyber-sovereigns))) made it incredibly hard for ICANN to continue doing its critical role under the control of one party, whoever that party is, whether it is a government or a company.” (((There wasn't supposed to be a "party in control," the Internet ideology was a functional anarchy, but that's what has to be forgotten now, eclipsed, obliterated.)))
"This was especially clear as countries like China, Brazil, and Russia demanded control of ICANN be taken away and given to an international body like the UN, calls that grew louder in light of the NSA spying scandal. (((Not that they've stopped spying or anything; the "scandal" is the status quo situation for Internet Counterrevolution. It's the "platform for cyberwar" model.))) These appeals to transition power over ICANN from the US would also potentially allow other major powers like Russia and China to have more control over internet policy and could lead to censorship and fragmentation, allowing conservative countries to create their own walled-off, controlled internets….
((("Globalization of Balkanization," etc. It'll take a while for this new sensibility to consolidate, but this action on the part of ICANN is one of the watersheds.)))
