Exaggerated? Here's a link to the Chinese proposal to give each government control over the internet in it's country - DNS and all - https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-diao-aip-dns-00 This is the abstract - "With the reality of Internet, Autonomous Internet technology in this article constructs independent autonomous extensible domain name architecture and domain name hierarchy through current domain name architecture, provides independent root DNS server, inner/outer DNS resolution mechanism for each autonomous internet network system, and provides reformation and transition solution from current Internet to realize autonomy even in unilateral action." If you read the WSJ article linked, you'll see the ridiculous proposals like making snooping on email legal, and charging a fee on internet traffic that crosses national borders. Imagine having to pay for a google search, not to google but to your government. Actually that'd make google search payed, because they'd have to pay to crawl sites that are hosted in servers outside the US. And if you're under the impression that all of this is too ridiculous and surely sane politicians will not back this, you're underestimating the assholery and idiocy of politicians.