This year has signalled a much greater intensity of the ramping up of curtailing internet freedoms – and by all accounts there is much worse to come in the way of tyranny and the end of free speech.  For now, the march continues with another hair-brained scheme.   CNET Reports…   The United Nations is considering a new Internet tax targeting the largest Web content providers, including Google, Facebook, Apple, and Netflix, that could cripple their ability to reach users in developing nations.   The European proposal, offered for debate at a December meeting of a U.N. agency called the International Telecommunication Union, would amend an existing telecommunications treaty by imposing heavy costs on popular Web sites and their network providers for the privilege…