The UN apparently believes that people should know of their corrupt governments, but have no means to oppose them.
Nah. The UN wants control of the Internet handed over to them, the policies, the root DNS, everything. That way the dictatorships that hold much of the power in the UN get to decide that censorship is a good thing, and that people don't need to know what their government is doing. You know China would probably be chairman of the Internet governance board. Remember, this is the country that flat-out told the BBC that they don't block sites, when you can't get the BBC in China because it's blocked ("Sometimes we have trouble accessing them. But that's a different problem."). Rather than freedom spreading from the free Internet into such countries, their censorship will now spread to cover the free Internet, and it won't be called censorship, it'll be called "protecting" us.
Everybody would have access, but nobody would know anything about what their governments are really doing. I'm glad Bush refused to hand over control when he was in office. I can only hope that Obama refuses too.