All countries, including the US, already have input into ICANN. Check out ICANN.org to see how they work and what is being changed.

The Dept of Commerce is not renewing their contract with ICANN so oversight reverts to ICANN itself. The Dept of Commerce has been "hands off" with ICANN for 20 years. Only once have they taken action, blocking the .xxx domain.
So we are not "handing over" anything. Unless you consider a government agency that takes no action as something that can be handed over.

ICANN, a US non-profit corporation, will continue to operate as before, taking input from the same companies and countries.

NTIA has had oversite of ICANN for about 20 years now. What have they done in that 20 years?
They blocked creation of the .xxx domain. That's it.
So what will we be losing?

Trump is a protest candidate. He's attracting surprising support because of that.

Trump originally attracted a following last year because he was the only candidate that clearly supported enforcement of our southern border.

Back when I was working at a call center (processing credit applications for several different companies) we had access to credit reports. If we looked up someone's credit report that was not applying for credit, it was immediate termination. I couldn't even look up credit reports for people that had the same last name as myself. If that situation came up, we had to transfer the application to a different service rep.

Years later, I worked at a hospital. They had similar restrictions and consequences regarding patient records due to HIPPA regulations.

Don't be sad. The tide is turning. Laws are starting to get passed against forfeiture. We have the mechanisms in place to end these kind of practices.
Please note that these laws are coming from state legislatures, not federal.

All my usb drives contain my "medical data", protected by HIPPA privacy regulations.

Seriously, HIPPA regulations are probably the strongest data privacy regulations we have in the US. I'm surprised that they haven't been used by shady lawyers in cases like this that require large scale privacy intrusion with no probable cause.

Encryption.

Problem solved.

When you download via BitTorrent, each bit of the file you get from seeders/peers comes "directly" from that person's computer. They just record the IP address and verify that what they got was indeed their content.

Not more than judges, court proceedings and the law.

The only way Facebook can prevent ad-blockers from working is to make the ads look like real posts

They could put ads in their page's html instead of using javascript.
BTW, Reddit does what you describe and calls it "sponsored content".

I thought this post was supposed to be about Facebook not allowing ad blocking - and maybe discussing other sites that do that.
It has instantly devolved into a Facebook anti-popularity contest.

NOBODY GIVES A SHIT WHETHER YOU LIKE/USE FACEBOOK OR NOT!.

and their rules did make perfect sense.

Since when did that ever matter to a teenager? What makes sense to an adult and what makes sense to a teenager are two different things.

"most winnable" with who? Bush, Carson, Cruz or Kasich? You should seriously rethink this.

Except that the Russians exposed the DNC corruption scandal just a few days ago.

Where's your source on this. Julian Assange made a statement just a couple days where is specifically did not identify the source of the leaked material.

- http://nypost.com/2016/07/25/j...

Is it better to owe a favor or be forced to give favors or else some comrade will release your hacked emails, implicating you for handing out political favors for donations to your "charity"?