http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/17/net-us-telecoms-treaty-fail-idUSBRE8BG00K20121217 Reuters news reported Monday 12.12.17 that the major Internet companies "won" approval of the policies they most wanted international endorsement for at the "failed" 12 day International Telecommunications Union treaty negotiations in Dubai, December 3-14, 2012. 144 nations sent representatives. 89 nations signed a very problematic treaty agreement. The US persuaded 12 other countries to reject the treaty in order to "save" the free and open Internet the US invented and deployed along with western Europe as the world-wide-web in 1991. But for how long can the US and its dozen allies hold off the repressive designs of those countries like China who would impose severe controls on what web content can be seen by whom or what content is "appropriate" to be web-published?