The World Economic Forum (WEF) has ordered the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to wage “war on
conspiracy theorists” by seizing domains of websites that publish
“non-mainstream content” online.
The EU DisinfoLab, a WEF-funded nonprofit, says
ICANN needs to expand its control over domain registration limitations
to include so-called “disinformation” policing in addition to phishing
and malware. This would mean that ICANN would be granted powers to
police who is allowed to register websites based on their adherence to
official narratives.
Naturalnews.com
reports: It is disingenuous, just for the record, for the EU DisinfoLab
to claim independence when a large percentage of its funding comes from
none other than the Open Society Foundations, which are a project of
billionaire agitator George Soros.
The Open Society Foundations is already testing the waters concerning
the “repurposing” of ICANN to become a tool for targeting
“disinformation sites.” Natural News, presumably, would be included in that repurposed targeting, as would many other independent media sites.
“Attempting to directly enlist ICANN would be highly controversial,
to put it mildly, at least at this stage,” writes Didi Rankovic for Reclaim the Net about the news.
“Given its importance in the internet infrastructure – ICANN manages
domain names globally – and the fact content control is not among its
tasks (DisinfoLab says ICANN ‘refuses’ to do it) – this would represent a
huge departure from the organization’s role as we understand it today.”
Internet 2.0 a censorship nightmare
Utilizing “the structure already created by ICANN,” The EU DisinfoLab
is urging ICANN to basically police the entire internet in search of
anything the powers the be (TPTB) consider as “disinformation.”
Doing this, the group argues, would require a “minimal amount of
diligence and cooperation” from registries.
The purpose of all this would be to have ICANN determine which
websites are unacceptable, meaning their domain names would be revoked.
The entire internet worldwide would be affected by such a change.
The cover story TPTB are using to try to justify such a drastic
change is that “disinformation doppelganger” sites, which are sites that
try to mimic “trusted news sites” with similar names or formatting, are
getting too out of hand and must be stopped.
Since ICANN is the top authority for both website domain names and
DNS registration, the group would be allowed, under the new scheme, to
revoke entire websites that are deemed to be spreading some kind of
“misinformation.”
Truth be told, ICANN was already doing something similar during the
Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) “pandemic.” Domain names containing the
word “covid,” along with other related terms, were probed to see if they
were trying to use such keywords to mask phishing or malware
proliferation operations. In other words, it was not yet about trying to
“moderate” any content related to COVID.
What is being proposed now, conversely, is a type of moderation
format in which ICANN would have the authority to strike entire website
domains found guilty of spreading disinformation.
The EU DisinfoLab wants ICANN to use a system called DNSTICR to
report “genuinely open-and-shut (disinformation) cases” to registrars
for removal. The question is: Who gets to decide what an “open-and-shut
disinformation case” actually is?
One possibility is that registries or registrars could “grant media
trade associations ‘trusted notifier’ status, though this, too, would be
arbitrarily decided in that there is no established framework for
deciding who gets “trusted notifier” status.
What this all amounts to is everything George Orwell warned the world
about many decades ago: a ministry of truth control grid that expands
the entire world, regulating everything people say and do – in this case
online.
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