End of U.S. Oversight of Internet?

ICANN's New Plan to End US Oversight of the Internet

Graham Templeton | August 5, 2015

The US is often thought of as “controlling” the internet, because of the physical and legal access it has to fundamental infrastructure. Snowden’s revelations proved some of these more conspiratorial theories to be well-founded, but one oft-cited source of American authority has always been publicly admitted: ICANN, the body that oversees various fundamental internet databases, was still subject to partial oversight by the US government. Now, under direction from the US commerce department, ICANN will end that oversight and transition to a model accountable only to its private sector “stakeholders.”

ICANN will become an independent entity without US government oversight for the Internet's domain and address system. Source: http://phys.org/news/2015-08-icann-oversight-internet.html

<more at http://www.extremetech.com/internet/211652-icanns-new-plan-to-end-us-oversight-of-the-internet; related link: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/08/icann_publishes_proposal_to_end_us_oversight_of_internet.html (ICANN publishes proposal to end U.S. oversight of internet. August 4, 2015)>