Time Running Out for Open Web Advocates at UNs WCIT Internet Conference

Forces working to preserve the open Internet are running out of time as a United Nations conference that could dramatically change the open web nears its end.

The World Conference on International Telecommunications, or WCIT, began last week with the mission of updating a telecommunications treaty that hasn't been refreshed for two and a half decades. Now, with about three working days until the conference draws to a close, some countries, companies and advocacy groups are scrambling to ensure the revised treaty doesn't result in the end of the Internet as we know it.

Well before WCIT began, Internet freedom advocates warned that certain countries like Russia and China planned on propo…
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