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Interesting article titled "The U.N.'s Internet Sneak Attack" in the WSJ about the upcoming ITU World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) which plans to renegotiate International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs) for the first time since 1988. Russia, China, Iran and other likely countries (Authoritarian tyrannical dictatorships? Welcome to our club.) are pushing for ITU to take control over governing the Internet, its rules and regulations. It would help local governments to exert finer control over what their citizenry is allowed to access. They've been finding the effort currently required to censor and filter out unwanted content too strenuous and would like to simplify it.

Here is info on the conference itself.