{"id":30706,"date":"2016-10-02T21:47:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T04:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/a-global-monopoly-just-took-over-the-internet-and-no-one-even-noticed"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:11:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:11:55","slug":"a-global-monopoly-just-took-over-the-internet-and-no-one-even-noticed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/a-global-monopoly-just-took-over-the-internet-and-no-one-even-noticed","title":{"rendered":"A Global Monopoly Just Took Over The Internet, And No One Even Noticed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-global-monopoly-just-took-over-the-internet-and-no-one-even-noticed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>By: Claire Bernish \/ (<a href=\"http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/\">The Free Thought Project<\/a>)<\/strong> On Saturday, the United States ceded oversight of one of the Internet\u2019s most basic and fundamental functions \u2014 the so-called \u201croot zone,\u201d which governs new domain names and addresses \u2014 handing it over to a small non-profit group by allowing a 47-year contract to expire.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, the U.S. Commerce Department held a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/us-cuts-cord-internet-oversight-113602357.html\">contract<\/a> with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) \u2014 whose executives and board of directors must now report to an Internet \u201cstakeholder community,\u201d loosely comprised of academics, activists, engineers, government officials, and corporate interests.<\/p>\n<p>In theory, this advisory panel could revoke ICANN\u2019s authority entirely should it not live up to expectations \u2014 but all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/ct-contract-expiration-internet-ip-addresses-20160930-story.html\">actions<\/a> \u201care supposed to be done by consensus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trueactivist.com\/a-global-monopoly-just-took-over-the-internet-and-no-one-even-noticed\/\">http:\/\/www.trueactivist.com\/a-global-monopoly-just-took-over...n-noticed\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmmm. By: Claire Bernish \/ (The Free Thought Project) On Saturday, the United States ceded oversight of one of the Internet\u2019s most basic and fundamental functions \u2014 the so-called \u201croot zone,\u201d which governs new domain names and addresses \u2014 handing it over to a small non-profit group by allowing a 47-year contract to expire. For [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66098,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30706\/revisions\/66098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}