India Rejects Internet Regulation as UN Split Widens in Dubai

India joined the U.S. in opposing rules that would give governments control over the Internet as an international split over Web regulation divides a United Nations conference in Dubai.

“India feels there should not be a regulation of the Internet,” Rabindra Jha, the deputy director general of India’s telecommunications department, said in an interview. “It should be self regulating. It remains self regulating, like the solar system. Nobody regulates day and night, nobody regulates the year and months. It comes automatically.”