The Internet Defense League, a loose affiliation of Web companies that formed over the summer including Mozilla and advocacy groups such as Fight For the Future (which spearheaded the fight against the SOPA anti-piracy bill), has sent out an email attempting to rally its supporters to sign a petition against an upcoming United Nations summit to discuss new regulations of the Internet, the World Conference on International Communications 2012 (WCIT-12), hosted by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Separately, Google launched its own campaign against the conference. Here is the text of the Internet Defense League’s email in full:
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