The Home Builder Implode-O-Meter News Pick-ups: The U.N. Fought The Internet -- And The Internet Won; WCIT Summit In Dubai Ends

For the last two weeks some of the planet's most oppressive regimes have faced off against some of the most powerful Internet advocates in an effort to rewrite a multilateral communications treaty that, if successful, could have changed the nature of the Internet and altered the way it is governed.
On Thursday night that effort failed, as a US-led block of dissenting countries refused to sign the proposed updates, handing the United Nation's International Telecommunication Union a humbling defeat.