When the Obama administration announced its plan to give up U.S. protection of the internet, it promised the United Nations would never take control. But because of the administration’s narrative and arrogance, U.N. control is the likely result if the U.S. gives up internet stewardship as planned at midnight on Sept. 30. It’s shocking the administration admits it has no plan for how Icann retains its antitrust exemption. The reason Icann can operate the entire World Wide Web root zone is that it has the status of a legal monopolist, stemming from its contract with the Commerce Department that makes Icann an “instrumentality” of government. Without the U.S. contract, Icann would seek to be overseen by another governmental group so as to keep its antitrust exemption. Authoritarian regimes have already proposed Icann become part of the U.N. to make it easier for them to censor the internet globally. So much for the Obama pledge that the U.S. would never be replaced by a “government-led or an inter-governmental organization solution.” Is the Federal governments switching over internet power to Icann just a cover up for giving internet control over to the United Nations? One would have to wonder this, because it's a sudden giving up of internet power by the Obama administration, to a never known or unheard of company. The fact that the Federal government is handing over internet power to an unknown company is absolutely alarming, because companies do not have to follow privacy rights of American citizens as they are not Federally or state operated. The fact is though this so called company Icann has never been heard of by the average American citizen, and because it's a sudden move of internet control coming from the Obama administration...Chances are Icann is a cover up name for the United Nations. You think if it was a company gaining control over the internet, you would almost think billions or trillions of dollars were involved but there isn't even a penny.