 surrending control of the internet is a bad idea do you trust foreign governments more than the united states that is the question before us president obama seems to be siding with the former when deciding who should control the internet  the internet is an american invention one which a large percentage of the world enjoys but because the entire world uses it even if it finds the internet a critical part of their way of life does not mean we should cede control of it to an unpredictable and fickle council of sometimes americahating bureaucrats we know how badly obama wants the rest of the world s governments to like him what with all the bowing and consistent badmouthing of the us whenever he travels abroad another way to achieve his goal is by sharing control of the systems that manage the internet currently done by the internet assigned numbers authority an american entity to foreign countries and government what could go wrong with an organization that counts russia and china not known for their kindness towards dissidents and freedom of speech having influence over if not control of the world s most powerful tool for communication  cyber attacks that blocked internet access to and from georgia in 2008 were coordinated with the armed takeover of a georgian province by russia greater control of internet management means easier times manipulating the systems that determine who gets the information they need attacks like the one on georgia would be more likely with international control not less what happens when thuggish regimes like china along with nations that it can influence or control want to block access to certain sites or from certain countries or forbid certain users china and their ilk already censor information from their citizens with control of the managing systems of the internet that censorship would be far reaching any group they or another powerful nation could potentially reek havoc on information sharing god help israel if the radical muslim nations have influence on internet policy syria iran and others want israel wiped off the map ndash they certainly wouldn rsquo t have a problem blocking internet access we all know this is part of obama s dream of global governance along with such items as climate change and the world court but voluntarily surrendering some or all of our control over internet management is not in our nation rsquo s best interest and isn rsquo t a president rsquo s job to protect the united states and do what rsquo s best for us its citizens  