Goodbye 1st Amendment rights, here comes the United Nations.
Last March, ICANN, the Los Angeles-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, stated it would relinquish control over domain names and other aspects of Internet architecture in favor of a new “global governing” structure that would involve multiple “stakeholders.”
In 2012 Obama signed a UN treaty which effectively banned civilian ownership of firearms, which the UN has characterized as a threat to the “power monopoly” of the state, although we have yet to see actual enforcement of this treaty. So when you as an American wants to put up a pro-gun website and exercise your free speech, we can expect the UN to say “No”, and you will have no recourse but to comply.
Could the United Nations ban gun websites? That’s the fear being expressed by some second amendment advocates after the announcement that control over key aspects of the Internet would be transferred over to the “global community”.Last week it was announced that the Los Angeles-based nonprofit the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, would relinquish control over domain names and other aspects of Internet architecture in favor of a new “global” governing structure that would involve multiple “stakeholders.”
The United Nations subsequently welcomed this “transition” of key aspects of the web over to the “global community” as a “major step towards the multilateral Internet governance that the UN has been advocating for many years.”
But could such a transition herald a new era of Internet censorship?
“Things like the First Amendment aren’t going ton be applicable anymore, that’s going to be out the window, warns Urban Survival blogger Dave Acton.
Acton makes the point that the United Nations considers many firearms legally owned by U.S. citizens to be “weapons of mass destruction”. The UN has vigorously campaigned against civilian ownership of “small arms” such as hand guns and pistols, blaming them for 90% of civilian casualties worldwide.
Although not put into action, the Obama administration signed a United Nations treaty in 2012 which effectively banned civilian ownership of firearms, which the UN has previously characterized as a threat to the “power monopoly” of the state.
“So under that global governance program, websites that promote ‘weapons of mass destruction’ like firearms, ammo – those domain names aren’t going to be renewed,” warns Acton, adding that gun-related domain names will be restricted after the transition.
Concerns that the United States’ relinquishing control over the Internet to the United Nations could lead to censorship have been expressed by several prominent individuals over the past two years.
In May 2012, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Philip Verveer warned lawmakers that proposals to give the UN more control over the Internet could, “potentially lead to an era of unprecedented control over what people can say and do online.”
In February 2013, Robert McDowell, a member of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, warned that the UN was slowly moving to seize control of the world wide web, characterizing adherents of such a move as “patient and persistent incrementalists who will never relent until their ends are achieved.”
Texas Republican Ted Poe went further, asserting, “The idea that the UN ought to be controlling the Internet to me is like putting the Taliban in charge of women’s rights.”
No Incumbents.
Vote every one of them out.
Christians are being murdered in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia and the our Government, and the monsters at the United Nations and our liberal media ignore it like they ignore the War Crimes of the Obama Administration and NATO in Africa and the Middle East. Sanctions should have been imposed against the United States and Biden and Obama should have been indited for war crimes, we are murdering civilians.
The United Nations Human Rights Council is a joke. The United Nations does not deserve any control over anything in the world.
United Nations Human Rights Council lately has included nations like these: China, Nigeria, Madagascar, Algeria, Egypt, Malaysia, Libya, Kenya, Qatar, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Malaysia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Saudi Arabia, and Iran.
Countries have sought membership of the Commission not to strengthen human rights but to protect themselves against criticism or to criticize others.
Odd that the nations in the United Nations Human Rights Council have the worst records on human rights and very little personal freedom isn’t it ?
Women and children in some of these countries have no rights at all.
Although their human rights records are horrible and continue to be horrible today they belong to the horrible joke we call the United Nations.
Tthe nations of the United Nations believed in Human Rights and Freedom, women and children in those countries would have some Human Rights and Freedoms.
In most of the nations of the United Nations womeen and children have the one right, to do as they are told, and the other right, to be quiet. In Muslim nations that is always true, women and children are like slaves. Probably that is why Obama loves Muslims and Terrorists as much as he does.
No Incumbents, they have not fired Obama.
Oh boy!! Here we go!!
the UN needs to stay out of things here in the usa we do not need them
the un is an agency of out of touch people. deport them out of America and tear the un building down.
It doesn’t matter WHAT this current corrupt government says.. the UN has NO rights within OUR borders… & we as Americans will take any aggression by the UN toward the American people to BE a direct act of TREASON & WAR!! The UN has NO business within our borders .. get the corrupt UN out of the USA & get the USA OUT of the UN!
They better not try ! We will kick them out of the USA if need be !
The United Nations can kiss my crank. They don’t write our laws.
You what I say to the UN. It’s not happy birthday.