World Politicians Not Agreeing - Good/bad?

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With the last few weeks showing how politicians from western countries have real problems agreeing on the most basic things, then I was thinking that maybe it will be a really loong time before the internet will be tamed, and we all have to do business based on some kind of common obscenity laws, internet trade tax rates etc.

When politicians can not even agree on how to defend NATO countries asking for help (I´m still in shock that some politicians will use NATO to play out their national politics on CNN - if I was from Turkey I would be pissed), then it shows me that national interest comes first for many politicians.

The internet is global media, however it looks like we will have to live with local standards for a long time. Will be good for some, but bad for others.

Well I didn´t want to mix current world politics into the future of the internet, but it will probably be the same politicians who will have to agree on crossborder net sales tax issue etc. (I´m still wondering how the US will react to the new sales tax laws from the EU, where every US/world business with European sales over the internet, will have to pay sale taxes to the EU countries... I know it sounds crazy, but that shows how EU politicians are thinking national without regards to the rest of the world).

So how will it look in 2010?