Leave the Internet alone

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colo.): The Internet was devised by U.S. military researchers in the 1960s, and under U.S. auspices it has flourished.
Now that it is running so well, other nations think that what the Internet needs is more supervision by other governments, preferably through the United Nations. The effort at imposing international control on the Internet is being led by a handful of nations, including China, Iran and Cuba, which should tell you something.
This wouldn't normally amount to much except that at a preliminary meeting to the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society the European Union suddenly and unexpectedly dropped its objections to handing the Internet over to international regulation.
Controlling information
It doesn't take any great insight to realize that what most of these countries want is control over the information their peoples have access to.
Given the importance of the Internet to world commerce and economic growth, the United States owes other governments a continued commitment to noninterference.