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AnonTechie writes with an article from El Reg:

Efforts to squeeze the United Nations into the throne of the internet have been comprehensively defeated at a key meeting in South Korea. The result raises the possibility that after more than a decade of fighting, the threat of a UN takeover is a thing of the past.

After more than two weeks of negotiations at the United Nations' ITU Plenipotentiary meeting in South Korea ( http://www.itu.int/en/plenipotentiary/2014/Pages/default.aspx ), revised versions of four key internet resolutions have passed through the working group stage and will be formally approved in the next few hours by the meeting's plenary.

In each case, proposed changes that would have given the ITU (the International Telecommunication Union) greater authority over the internet's evolution, have been pulled out – and some additions had been made that give existing internet organizations a greater say in future discussions.

[...] It is still possible that China and/or Russia and/or parts of the Middle East will regroup and try to push for more global control. However, it seems far more likely after these negotiations that they will simply focus their efforts on their own territories.

Although the battle is not entirely over, the possibility of a de facto corporate takeover still exists if net neutrality is abandoned. What does SN think about this development?