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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
It will become like banking, regulated in a lot of countries and then completely free in some that see the potential of providing unregulated information. Imagine what this could mean to Andorra's economy.
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The biggest problem isn't regulation. We already have web pages that cannot be seen in every country. Imagine if this happened to all the foreign websites. Right now the internet is mostly without borders, and countries really like their borders.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
As I said, "for now".
The autocrats will continue to try to control/censor the internet and with bureaucrats and telecoms looking to expand their respective empires (through regulation and fees respectively) the issue isn't going away.
But *for now* they ran into enough resistance that they've pulled back.
They'll try again soon and they'll come back with more allies from the west next time, likely european telecoms and B&M retailers.
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I don't even trust them that much:
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A series of ITU committees are meeting to draft proposals, with a deadline of December 12. The final texts will be presented on December 13, with the treaty signing scheduled to occur the following day. However, many of the meetings are being conducted behind closed doors, and key documents are withheld from public scrutiny -- the opposite of the way traditional Internet standards-setting works.
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They backed down in the public eye, but meetings happen behind closed doors.