Freedman urges 'netizens in every country to launch similar fights against government 'net-censorship. If the German or Australian supreme courts were to rule that freedom of speech principles apply to the 'net as they do to a newspaper, that would be very helpful. In the near future, that's the best way to forestall the world information order. The first time a country proposes such a formal treaty, it has to die from lack of support. But pressure to regulate the 'net will always exist, and a new way of looking at cyberspace may have to emerge.
Some precedents exist.
Maritime law, for example, says that no single nation has jurisdiction over the oceans. Medieval Europe recognized a separate law for merchants that had its own judicial system. Antarctica is not governed by any single country's laws. The Catholic Church is a multinational institution that largely rules itself. The Cyberspace Law Institute's Post argues for this model.