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A wave of Internet regulation worldwide threatens to complicate the investment environment for companies offering consumer-facing web services.

As the Federal Communications Commission this week starts combing through the more than 10,000 public comments filed in its net neutrality proceeding, the U.S. government’s concern with maintaining a free and open Internet is beginning to look like a global anomaly. Around the world, governments both authoritarian and democratic are taking ever-more aggressive steps to regulate Internet and online service providers and to monitor what their citizens do online. While those measures have provoked fierce political [...]