Here is a response I made to this on another forum back in March...
I feel that if the UN were to become involved we would face the internet oppression that many countries face. If I recall correctly, China is one of the countries which actually restricts access to certain sites it feels are objectionable. If I want to look at some nudie pictures, then I should be able to without another countries government telling me what I can and can't see (as long as it is legal). This is probably one of the reasons many of the hackers and illegal stuff comes from these countries, is because of the oppression of their people!
I believe two thing that ties back to the US is that there is more of a market penetration (about 68.8% of US population uses the internet) with the US population even thought it has a smaller share of the world usage population compared to some parts of the world (
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm). Also, the fact that much of the early concept of the internet, and some of the first tests of the internet were made in the US (
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml) probably has something to do with it as well.
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And then a follow up to that post...
China tightens surveillance of Internet forums
March 2, 7:15 a.m. PST
The Chinese government has tightened surveillance of Internet chat rooms and discussion forums ahead of the annual National People's Congress (NPC) meeting, which begins March 5 in Beijing, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. The NPC is China's highest legislative body. A major focus of this year's meeting is consideration of a draft antisecession law aimed at curbing Taiwanese moves toward formal independence. Chat rooms and discussion boards on popular Web sites have been assigned security guards responsible for monitoring the content of messages and postings during the NPC session, Xinhua said. Messages submitted by users will be filtered and censored before appearing online. In an effort to boost control over the Internet during the NPC meeting, officials from China's Ministry of Public Security met with executives from local Internet service providers, major Web sites, and Internet cafe chains, Xinhua reported. The report did not specify how long these added Internet control measures will remain in place
Do you really want these people telling you what you can and can't do on the internet?