the results of restricting freedoms- be careful of what you wish for

i totally agree, we should stop restricting ourselves, we're in a worse economy now, WE SHOULD JUST TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT and save the earth by not restricting ourselves and switching to solar, and maybe we should kick those politic guys out of their chairs!

The scope and boundaries of our free society have been in flux since day1. The franchise has expanded greatly (those who may participate) over 200 plus years and with it has come ever increasing time,place,and manner restrictions on speech and assembly. The modern constitution really started dying in 1803 with Marbury vrs. Madison which established the right of judicial review (or the supreme court will have the sole right to interpret the laws Congress creates within the constitutional framework). Once the courts established person hood for corporate entities (1870's) wealth could be transmitted from generation to generation and that was the beginning of the end of the free agrarian farmer Jefferson dreamed of. We have never been a democracy, we started as a representative republic and have morphed into a neo-fascist oligarchy at the federal level. The good news is you can still participate very effectively at the local level. I doubt these internet restrictions will survive as a bill, they will show themselves as regulatory law very soon so that punishment can be hidden from the prying eyes of the media. By all means explore the above assertions further..no conspiracy,just a scary evolution.