This is a handy link to some important bills and legislation - proposed, passed, or scrapped.  http://www.activistpost.com/p/documentslegislation-research.html

I just read an article which might have disturbed me if I wasn't aware of the big changes coming in a few short years anyway.  It seems that our very protective(?) government has already planned, and has the paper work done already, to censor the material and information available on the Internet, to track your and my activity on the net, and to completely block any sources of alternative news