Europe has proposed an Internet Treaty to protect the net from political interference which threatens to break it up.
An early draft of the Treaty has come into our possession as governments around the world pile pressure on the United Nations to bring the Internet under political control. Their various hare-brained schemes threaten to make communication on the Internet conditional on criteria set by narrow political interests.
The Treaty’s General Principles of Internet Governance will protect the technical foundation on which the network was based, demanding that it operate using open standards – that all networks connected to the Internet remain interoperable with all other networks.
http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/9/20/international-internet-treaty-proposed-europe/