Two places where more light needs to shine:

1.  The ITU "next generation network" standards process.  ITU hosts a resource page here.  It looks as if telcos from around the world want to take the billing/tracing standards used by mobile carriers and graft them onto the internet.  This would allow them to know exactly what everyone is doing on their networks, and to charge for it. 

Standards aren't neutral.  The original internet standards had a definite bias towards openness, non-discrimination, and simplicity.  The ITU project is aimed at making the internet into (essentially) a circuit-switched operation, in which central control is far easier.  This is appealing to many powerful entities around the world, including law enforcement authorities. There are constant NGN-oriented meetings, and steady progress is being made.  Unless we pay attention -- actively -- the original internet standards won't always be with us. 

What can you do?  You can ask the techies you know to translate for you, and to help persuade internet advocacy organizations that are friendly to the original standards to get actively involved in the ITU process.

2.  TV Without Frontiers.  Just as the ITU wants to take mobile rules and stick them on the internet, the European Commission wants to take rules about broadcast TV (protection of minors, for example) and apply them to internet content.  This is a hopelessly pernicious idea.

What can you do?  If you work for a large company that has something to do with internet content, you can take a moment to flip through a few comments, understand why this is a bad move (I'll do this in summary tomorrow -- about to get on a train here), and publicize the substantial retrograde inversion that this step represents.