The DOD and American universities built the skeleton (the old ARPAnet), and American companies and universities put most of the flesh on the bones (with help from Japan and Western Europe and maybe Russia, if you count on-line instantiations of Tetris). The UN can bugger off. If the Third World thugs whose representatives form the 'majority' there don't like it, they can lead their people back to the 1970's or the dark ages. The Internet is ours!
Sounds like you know your stuff.
I sure hope so.