[Commentary] The US government's concern with maintaining a free and open Internet is beginning to look like a global anomaly.
Around the world, governments both authoritarian and democratic are taking ever-more aggressive steps to regulate Internet and online service providers and to monitor what their citizens do online. While those measures have provoked fierce political battles in many of the countries where they've been introduced or proposed, they also threaten to complicate the investment environment for companies offering consumer-facing web services. The trend toward greater and stricter regulations of web services is gaining momentum around the world.
Eventually, it could make the debate in the U.S. over P2P throttling look quaint.
