Yes, since 2000 basically everything has gone in the wrong direction when it comes to legislation. The technology and social window to fight freedom of speech and piracy just isn't there yet, but it will eventually be.
China is moving towards that everyone must have a spyware installed on their computer and if you try to hide what you're doing, you'll be in trouble. In USA innocent people are sued for millions of dollars just because they have copied a harmless file that anyone can get access to, not to mention arrested for things they say online.
What seems to be happening with the Internet is the same that happened to pirate radio in Europe. When everyone is using things like Facebook and other "official" ways of connecting, then the authorities will simply shut Internet down so that you can't communicate directly with someone without a government controlled server in between you. Facebook already filter the private messages so that you can't send your friends what you want. Just like no one can listen to radio that isn't indirectly government controlled today, even though the station is run by a private company.
And people will accept it because everything they use Internet for still works OK. And THINK OF THE CHILDREN and TERRORISM will be great excuses for doing all sort of evil things.
Even the net neutrality conspiracy idea is a threat to the Internet. It calls for nothing else than government control of the Internet. When the control is there, it will be used to turn Internet into a fancy cable TV. We need many interconnected Internets to select from, not some more or less government run technology. If for example USA paid the same price for Internet as we do in Sweden, Americans could afford to get Internet from 3 companies and maybe a public Internet too at the same time, so who cares about net neutrality then? But USA has selected the monopoly regulated way and will soon be irrelevant, I guess. Only companies who have bribed politicians will be able to sell there. Worse is that USA is still able to push its bad ways on the rest of the world (China, France, Israel and I don't know what are trying too, but they don't succeed that much). THINK OF THE CHILDREN and then the foreign poker sites were blocked, for example. No one cared because there are still local poker sites. But this will be repeated for every aspect!