I’m no knee-jerk captalist, but China’s appeal to the U.N. to internationalize control over the Internet is a strange and fascinating view into the baseline assumptions of a communist system.

"Chinese Ambassador Sha Zukang
told a UN conference that controls should be multilateral, transparent
and democratic, with the full involvement of governments, the private
sector, civil society and international organizations."

"It is of crucial importance to
conduct research on establishing a multilateral governance mechanism
that is more rational and just and more conducive to the Internet
development in a direction of stable, secure and responsible
functioning and more conducive to the continuous technological
innovation," he said.

If we applied the same thinking on a national scale, any large company could argue that the government should take over Microsoft to ensure more rational governance conducive to stable, secure and responsible functioning, and more conducive to continuous innovation. Wait a minute, that sounds promising. Unless, of course, you envision congress trying to make decisions about what is rational…