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Congress Unanimously Bans U.N. Internet Regulation

Dec. 6, 2012 9:13am Liz Klimas

On Tuesday, TheBlaze reported that the U.S. was leading the charge to reject Internet regulation that could be proposed at the U.N. International Telecommunications Union’s world conference. Affirming this stance, the U.S. House of Representatives, like the Senate, unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday to ban U.N. Internet control.

PhysOrg reported Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) saying before the 397-0 vote that the representatives should “send a strong bipartisan, bicameral signal about America’s commitment to an unregulated Internet.” Congress has been applauded for their ability to come together on the issue.

“I think that we are all very, very proud that there is not only bipartisan, but bicameral support underlying this resolution, and there is complete support across the Executive Branch of our government,” Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) said, according to The Hill. “In other words, the United States of America is totally unified on this issue of an open structure, a multi-stakeholder approach that has guided the Internet over the last two decades.”

Although the ITU has said Internet freedom and/or measures that would lead to censorship would not be facilitated at the conference, as Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) pointed out, according to PsyOrg, there are “several hostile countries” that would use such a regulation to stifle freedom of expression on the web.

“We need to send a strong message to the world that the Internet has thrived under a decentralized, bottom-up multi-stakeholder governance model,” Blackburn said.

(H/T: SlashGear)

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pap pap
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 12:03pm
OMG Congress did something ? And it was something that was the right thing to do ? It’s actually pretty easy if you take the politics out of it and just do what is right for the American People.

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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 12:30pm
  “…a strong message to the world that the Internet has thrived under a decentralized, bottom-up multi-stakeholder governance model.”
  
  “…….and if somebody is going to screw it up, it’ll be us in congress, not the UN.”
  
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- AJC1973
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:53pm
  whats funny is congress will act to keep some other group of thieves from getting in on their racket but well they will make damn sure they regulate it to a degree that the un can only dream about… look at us we kept the un from regulating you and your porn surfing rights… whats that? no there isnt anything to be seen in that bill over there… no we arent doing the same thing the un wanted to do, its worse… err move along nothing to see here
  
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T-2
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 11:20am
awesome news. now, lets vote to move the UN to Iraq.

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- SquareHead
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 11:51am
  Amen to that. Good news from DC is rare.
  
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- gsplgtr
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 1:07pm
  better yet, move them to Benghazi
  
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lynnissmart
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 11:19am
Something is not right….feel it in my bones…..hope I’m wrong~

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- francisco
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 12:49pm
  I agree something still doesn’t feel right but still why is somebody not using this argument against the Obama loving progressives. An unregulated free market industry that is thriving simply because it is unregulated, and untaxed. Its simple you see something on the internet you don’t agree with click something else. Internet site sounds fishy, ohh don’t go in there might get a virus. This is the perfect basis for an argument for unregulating all of the markets.
  
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RestoreCapitalism
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:59am
I’m glad for this temporary victory, but you can be sure the globalists will be back on this issue. They won’t stop until they have total control.

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Codger
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:48am
Thank you Congress.

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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:56am
  Ditto. For now.
  
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- AJC1973
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:56pm
  why thank them? they didnt do anything.. their resolution has no control on the UN and they are regulating the internet worse than the UN, but because they vote unanamously on a resolution with no teeth well lets thank them, and remember that next election.. whatever…
  
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Al J Zira
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:46am
I didn’t see the words “permanent ban”.

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OniKaze
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:31am
Wait, am I missing something here…

This is making it look like our country is some bastion of Internet Freedom…. Its not… Remember, a few months back the SOPA, and PIPA laws that OUR officials tried to pass (and failed)? While we may be the “most free” country when it comes to internet use.. Lets not allow our politicians to act like they are all for “Internet Freedom” when they themselves were trying to regulate it…

What I took away from this is…

“If WE can’t regulate OUR country’s internet, then we won’t let you…” Which I am glad, but at the same time, I will not be applauding the congress for protecting our rights…

THAT’S THEIR JOB!! You don’t get kudos from me for doing your job.. You get Kudos when you GAIN us freedoms… NOT maintain the ones we already have (that you just tried yourself to take away…).

So I am glad it got shot down… But I will not give kudos to them for simply doing what they are REQUIRED to do…

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- encinom
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:43am
  What you are missing is that a US company ICANN is the one that doles out the ip addresses. The UN wanted to make is an international organization instead of one single US company.
  
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- Twinspeedr
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:54am
  Whoa…for once I agree with Encinom. There may have been a few that voted against it for the right reason. But most don’t want control of the Internet to leave the US where they have some control over it themselves.
  
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jessieH
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:30am
Only because the dollar is weak & it would kill thousands of jobs, if not more. Loss of the tax revenue would cripple the economy.

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PhineasJWhoopee
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:23am
Unanimous ! Someone paid a fortune to bribe 397 congressman.

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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:25am
  LOL good one!
  However sad to think you may actually be right.
  
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OldSurfRat
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:19am
HOLY CRAP!!!!!

Congress actually can do somthing right. Quick mark this day you may never see it again.

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jay1975
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:18am
They all voted against it as it would interfere with the governments ability to control the internet here. Our Congress keeps getting closer and closer to domestic regulation and it is only a matter of time.

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- Akridgerunner
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:33am
  I think you hit it right on the head Jay
  
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:14am
Let’s not kid ourselves. The only reason the alinsky radicals would vote against it is that it is not broad enough. Seriously.

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:12am
Why is the U.N. have it’s nose in anyone’s business? End it entirely..

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- Semper4everSemper
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:31pm
  The UN really isn’t the rest of the world, it’s the American Left. If we ever fall, it will be from the inside. It will be the American Left on the inside of American government using the UN to disarm/disable the United States. In other words, the ‘black helos’ will really just be the US Armed Forces trying to enforce the American Left’s will on us. Our only hope is to make sure the kids that are now 8 to 18 TRULY KNOW and LOVE OUR CONSTITUTION AND REPUBLIC. When they get UNLAWFUL orders, may they realize THEY’RE THE ONLY ONES WHO WILL BE ABLE TO SAVE US. My son will be home next week from the ‘danger zone’. He KNOWS the PRICE OF LIBERTY.
  
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jeannetr
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:04am
That is one win for the USA against Agenda 21.

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- Semper4everSemper
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 3:10pm
  Looks like the WIKI folks want to make some changes to Wikipedia too:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Agenda_21
  
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AmericanStrega
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:48am
This congress doesn’t do anything that isn’t in their best interest. They don’t give a spit for the American people.

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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:27am
  SOONER OR LATER, folks, we have to come together for the good of ALL of us. THIS was great news for me to read this morning! Rather than “speaking negativity over Congress” Let’s praise them today for this. HOW many times do they hear ” GOOD JOB ” instead of complaints? They are human too, let’s give them some Kudos for this vote.
  
  THEN
  
  Let’s encourage them to GO FOR SOLUTIONS to our $$$ Problems: 1. Instead of speaking ONLY of ‘raising taxes on the RICH’ – stop saying “RICH” but speak instead of ‘successful’.
  (stop the class warfare) – this should be emphasized to OBAMA !
  2. Never speak of raising taxes WITHOUT the accompanying sentence: “Cut Spending”
  
  IF all of us would do these two things, we’d see tensions ease and progress made.
  
  I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want ALL people to have enough to eat, a decent place to sleep, a chance at a good life and providing a good life for their families. The truth is this: The more people who are “able to buy widgets, the more everyone benefits” . Obama’s emphasis only on ‘taxing the rich’ is killing Capitalism. INSTEAD, those of us who UNDERSTAND Capitalism need to speak it.
  The first thing we need to do is EMPHASIZE (ourselves) that CAPITALISM has -0- to do with GREED. Greed comes from a morally corrupt source, which brings us to the MAIN Course of action: Getting back to GOD. WIth GOD we don’t panic; we don’t cheat or over emphasize $; we aren’t greedy. See wh
  
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doomytram
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:35am
Too bad that Congress can unanimously ban Obozo from implementing his horrendous ridiculous agenda.

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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:32am
When did America get a Congress ?

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- barber2
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:40am
  Are they sure this wasn’t an executive order ? Oh, no. That would have declared the opposite !
  
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- NONCENTS
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:51am
  Lol, we got France’s old one after Hollande raised the tax rate to 75%.
  
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- taxpro4u03
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:43pm
  Me thinks when the Congress ‘walked out’ circa 1861 — after 630K DEAD — round about 1871 or so — but it’s a CORPORATE (now a Private, Foreign-owned/IMF) institution, and has not a damn thing to do with the Republic — even if it is ‘democratic.’ Time to understand the nature of CONTRACTS, including Trusts, fiduciaries etc… ‘Implied’ Consent my EYE… Fraud is still fraud no matter what label one sticks on it — rendering null and void ANY ‘contract.’ Do your OWN homework — that’s what Divine Providence gave us a brain for. Get old sittin’ in a rockin’ chair waiting for a ‘miracle’ to come… you ARE the miracle — let’s ACT like it and quit beefin’ :-) The best place to find a helping hand is at the end or our own arm (metaphorically speaking)
  
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MNYukon
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:30am
Wow – all the hard work Hillary and Obama along with their ilk just went down the tubes. At least congress is smarter in someways than the Obama administration.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:33am
  Amazing – and with Reid the other day having rejected a vote on the Obama tax-matters, I wonder if he is getting ready to split from Obama.
  
  God does work in wonderful ways = for once the Congress agreed on something worth agreeing on.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:43am
  My French Bulldog is smarter than the Obama Administration. And he isn’t an ” anti-capitalist ” …
  
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- OhioRifleman
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:38am
  And my dog routinely creates more shovel-ready jobs than Obama does. Just goes to show lazy and incompetent a president we have…
  
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ares338
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:29am
There must be something in it for thm to do that. Strange….Actually doing their job!

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- Stelex
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:29am
  No, something we’re not seeing.
  
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gyro
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:26am
for every one blocked 4 sneek through
is a winning formula

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TheePolitinator
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:25am
I think the message has been sent loud and clear, ef with guns and internet and your arse is toast.

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Ron Staiger
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:25am
They’d better do the same with UN gun control- we have enough Marxist wackjobs in our own government without listening to the Marxist wackjobs in the UN

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- Metallicat
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 12:44pm
  I agree. I fear they were only unanimous here,because some agreed to sell us out down the road later. Theyll protect free speech now,and tell us since theyve done that,we no longer need guns,because we will always have the right to complain about the government on the internet,which they monitor and take names and numbers from.
  
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seaweaver1
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:22am
some one tell Glenn the UN Agenda 21 web page that has been up for 20 years has been removed

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:27am
  E-mail sent and I can confirm the UN site for Agenda 21 is down as of this post; so either its been completely pulled or is being ‘scrubbed and white washed’ into ‘a more presentable version.’
  
  I hope someone has copied the original files for comparison to whatever is released by the UN in the future. We have not seen the last of this.
  
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thetruthlives
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:20am
Wow. Congress acted in the best interest of americans!!!

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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:24am
  Well the bill wasn’t in the contest to have a R or a D on it.
  
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- stoptheliesbho
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:25am
  What? Nope. They acted in THEIR best interest, as ALWAYS. They have a BILLION secrets they don’t want regulated. It has nothing to do with US. Never has, never will.
  
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Locked
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:19am
Hey, what do you know! All it takes for Congress to come together is a foreign threat to our ability to govern ourselves!

Just ribbing them. Glad Congress made the right choice in this case.

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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:21am
  Well for once they earned a partial days pay.
  
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- kickagrandma
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:30am
  HOORAY is right!
  
  Thank you, Congress, for FINALLY doing something that is truly FOR AMERICA.
  
  What a concept!
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:42am
  Agree. An American decision. Not a Big Brother one. ( The Chicago radicals must be angry ! )
  
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