From the article: "An agreement to update 24-year-old United Nations telecommunications rules
was approved against the opposition of countries including the U.S. and the
U.K., whose officials walked out on the talks on concerns about Internet
regulation and censorship.
The new pact includes measures that would give countries a right to access
international telecommunications services and the ability to block spam, which
delegations declining to sign the amended text argued would pave the way for
government censorship and control over the Web." Read more