From the article: "Who runs the Internet? For now, the answer remains no one, or at least no
government, which explains the Web's success as a new technology. But as of
next week, unless the U.S. gets serious, the answer could be the United
Nations.
Many of the U.N.'s 193 member states oppose the open, uncontrolled nature of
the Internet. Its interconnected global networks ignore national boundaries,
making it hard for governments to censor or tax. And so, to send the
freewheeling digital world back to the state control of the analog era, China,
Russia, Iran and Arab countries are trying to hijack a U.N. agency that has
nothing to do with the Internet." Read more
