An UNOpen Internet.

As many of you may be aware the EU, the UN and its more notorious members are trying to wrest control of the Internet from the US. Note

Viviane Reding, European IT commissioner, says that if a multilateral approach cannot be agreed, countries such as China, Russia, Brazil and some Arab states could start operating their own versions of the internet and the ubiquity that has made it such a success will disappear. ...

Source: The Guardian's Richard Wray via the Belmont Club - The Battle for the Internet

Hmmm.

Wretchard then responds

Viviane Reding's warning is as hollow as a chocolate Easter bunny. China, Saudi Arabia and Iran can go ahead with their threat to create a proprietary DNS system and govern the hell out of it, which will guarantee that it will never achieve universal acceptance. All the United States need do to maintain its control over the Internet is simply to leave it alone.

Source: The Belmont Club - The Battle for the Internet

Wretchard is correct. The Internet's appeal does not lay in the technical wizardry (actually now a days Internet technicalities are getting close to bear skins and stone knives than to state of the art) and being able to connect to computers across the world. The Internet's appeal is in the free flow (practically unlimited how much do you pay for all of the blogs you read vs the dead tree publications you receive?) of information. The nations named above are so very opposed to the free flow of information and want to throttle it, want only information approved by the politburo or the imams to flow.