What these birds had in mind was nothing more than the same theft to which they've grown accustomed in their own countries. The scam supposedly would have started with replacing ICANN with a UN-related body for distributing IP addresses. It would have gone from there to dividing the address pool among developing countries and forcing the ones who needed addresses to pay just as the Kyoto agreement was structured with respect to emissions. From there an international internet tax would have been easy to institute, first for addresses and then for the passage of content, and so would monitoring and censorship of that content. Anyone who thinks this is an exaggeration may look at the people who are bleating here: Sudan, Cuba, Iran, China, Zimbabwe. To whose numbers we may add the European Union. That isn't a compliment.
Socialism is NOTHING but theft.
Think about it: when was the last time a socialist produced something on his own?