By: Claire Bernish / (The Free Thought Project) On Saturday, the United States ceded oversight of one of the Internet’s most basic and fundamental functions — the so-called “root zone,” which governs new domain names and addresses — handing it over to a small non-profit group by allowing a 47-year contract to expire.
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Run your own DNS server if you want to protect the system from inside. Set up and advocate for onions, eepsites, Namecoin, and so on to level the playing field.
“There is absolutely no way that this is going to imperil freedoms. … There is absolutely no way that this is going to allow Russia or Iran or anybody to take control of the Internet.” See how he switched it there? The critics’ concern is not with nation-states; the concern is with globalist multinational corporations and foundations that are country-agnostic and act above laws and popular consensus.
Its clear if Soros supports this I should be against it.
“Before, there was a threat of accountability.” Does this not sum up the article that nothing will change other than an empty threat has been removed?