UN-Appointed Group to Discuss Internet Control Issues

A debate over whether to allow free-market or government interests to set future Internet policy will be reignited at a meeting of technology officials in Rome. For the past nine months, a movement has been growing from within the United Nations to tackle some of the less desirable aspects of the Internet: torrents of spam e-mail, cybercrime and a "digital divide," where much of the developing world has little access to modern Internet and telecommunications innovations.