While looking up legislation on internet freedom, I found the following somewhat broad overreach:
PROTECT IP Act of 2011
https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/968/text"(ii) the Internet site - conducts business directed to residents of the United States; and harms holders of United States intellectual property rights."
OK, the bill got squashed, which is a story in itself, but then there's this:
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/09/hillary_clinton_and_internet_freedom/"There are many people who can credibly claim to defend Internet Freedom; Obama officials are not among them - Glenn Greenwald"
"But when ideas are blocked, information deleted, conversations stifled, and people constrained in their choices, the internet is diminished for all of us. What we do today to preserve fundamental freedoms online will have a profound effect on the next generation of users."
"Those are the acts of a government and a State Department seeking to block access to and discussion of evidence of their own wrongdoing and to punish as criminals those who reported it."
The above suggests that absent major political change in the USA, there'll be more of this,
which brings me to the prospects for the US leadership contest.
A couple of days ago there was a news video link between an journalist and what appeared to be
a girl in "Aleppo", pleading for the International Community to no longer idly stand by and do nothing.
At that point, I was reminded of many other victims of recent conflicts, and of Benghazi.
If I've recalled correctly, even a direct line to the second most powerful person on
this planet failed to get any effective action in the midst of the Benghazi firefight.
Everybody makes mistakes, everybody has regrets about things they did or didn't do.
The difference is in recognising the mistake for what it is and in the character growth that happens.
"What difference does it make?" suggests this learning process is not in place for HRC,
and it suggests no understanding of the military mindset.
If I'm reading the runes correctly, at least some faction of TPTB is rethinking its constituency,
and advocating change, but they may have a problem. It is this : "You're going to Jail"
For that political change to happen, TPTB have to be sure that they aren't going to jail,
and there's no way to ensure that, without a deal. And if anybody gets a deal, everybody
gets a deal.
And if everybody gets a deal, then for the internet, it's the same old, same old ...
BTW, More on the Syrian refugees and the totalitarian-lite profiteering here:
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2016/10/14/the-generators-agent-provocateurs-opportunists-of-the-refugee-crisis/