Via Vanity Fair
 
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When the Internet was created, decades ago, one thing was inevitable: 
the war today over how (or whether) to control it, and who should have 
that power. Battle lines have been drawn between repressive regimes and 
Western democracies, corporations and customers, hackers and law 
enforcement. Looking toward a year-end negotiation in Dubai, where 193 
nations will gather to revise a U.N. treaty concerning the Internet, 
Michael Joseph Gross lays out the stakes in a conflict that could split 
the virtual world as we know it.
 
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