Problem with "Sending Party Pays" Systems

The International Telecommunications Union, which operates under the auspices of the U.N. is holding discussions over how the internet should be regulated, or not regulated. One of the proposals, forwarded by India and Middle Eastern countries and Africa, involves companies like Google and Facebook paying for telecoms networks carrying their traffic. This is problematic, because then the dissemination of information will be selective to profit-yielding ones, and discourage public investment in infrastructure. Fronts, such as securing quality of the internet, can also be used as a disguise for censorship of information.