A good article from Wendy Grossman, quite a challenge coming up for the net. Although the idea that "laws" can be passed to regulate it per country has been shown to fail (just look at the anti-spam legislation).
Unless we have a 'world government' or I guess declare the internet its own country with its own government, unfortunately that can't work as vital servers that make it work have to be owned/run by someone with a hierarchy. Its can't be a cooperative venture. (Yes, I'm talking DNS).
http://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2007/08/wall_of_sheep.html