Rather than fret over the threat the United Nations poses to the open Internet, Jerry Brito and Adam Thierer suggest that Congress should recognize its own march towards “cyber-statism“:
Members of Congress today are critical of proposals by Russia and China to enact an information security convention, possibly including the ability to censor content in order to ensure domestic stability and security. But lawmakers were the ones who engaged in this behavior last year, by pressuring American companies to block WikiLeaks after its release of State Department cables. As a result of this pressure, Amazon stopped hosting the cables on its servers, EveryDNS dropped service (making the wikileaks.org domain inoperable), and payment processors like Visa and Mastercard refused to accept donations for the group, almost bankrupting it.
It’s a well-argued, convincing piece.