From the article: "U.S. Ambassador Terry Kramer on Friday warned that countries like
China and Iran are looking to propose troublesome language for a
telecommunications treaty that could lead to online censorship and government
monitoring of Web traffic.
The countries say those proposals are intended to protect computer
networks from malicious spam and crack down on online child pornography, but
the methods they suggest to accomplish this via the treaty would allow them to
see "what information is flowing on the Internet," including what
people are doing and saying on the Web, Kramer said at an event hosted by Johns
Hopkins University's Center for Transatlantic Relations." Read more