China's Preview Of UN Net Regs?

My head is spinning. China has imposed internet regulations that allow only "healthy and civilized" news on the Web -- and I'm reading this AP report on Yahoo, the very company that is helping China bust violators.

China, in many ways a model UN nation -- it is strong, its people are pretty well fed, it has a powerful central government, it's not overly concerned about troubling rights issues -- has laid down Internet rules just as the UN pushes for global control of the Internet. Here's what China is setting down as a model:

• Sites should limit posts to news on current event and politics
• Only "healthy and civilized" content that "is beneficial to the improvemetn of the quality of the nation, beneficial to its economic development and conducive to social progress" will be allowed
• News that goes against state security and public interest is not allowed
• Not in the policy but worth noting: The government has been closing Internet cafes, or installing cameras in them, or requiring ID at the door.

The world has two poles -- the free and freedom granting, and the repressed and repressors. China tries to fool us, but it's clear what pole they are tied to.