It's a dilemma.
You actively assist criminal energy by keeping the internet unregulated.
Regulating it a bit to battle crime, opens a range of options political opportunists may find all too tempting to abuse.
Well, we do not have total freedom on the street, too. There are laws, and policemen, and rules saying what you may do, and what not. There are even sanctions if you do not comply.
So far, the internet is a truly anarchic space. That it cannot stay that way, is clear.
Total, unlimited freedom, is an illusions. You need to balance individual freedom versus communal interests, and security concerns.
the dilemma is: where to set that balance, and who should decide? In the end, not this is the dilemma, but those mkaing decisons - politicians - being so deeply corrupted.
So in the end this is more about the failed poltical culture of the present, and the corruption of democracies, then about freedom and internet.
In Germany, an initiative of banning child porn sites and replace access to them with a warning shield, is under fire. the call to reduce chances for internet censorship - actively allows criminals to spread child pronography. On the othe rhand we have just seen a pltical intirgue around one of the two public Tv broadcasting stations, ZDF, whose director has been prevented by CDU-minister presidents sitting in the board of directors (why do poltiicians sit in the board of directors for Tv broadcasters...?) to get reelected into office, becausue he was known to be too indepedent and asking too critical questions. these two examples show that both camps in the dispute have valid, justified concerns.
I personally would prohibit members of political parties to become members of federal or national parliaments, I would prohibit political parties to constituate as organised parties, I would prohibit political mandate-holders from serving in private economy or business control boards at the same time, and I would set every economical lobbying agency on fire. This would eventually lead to a political culture again where the risk of regulating the internet a bit is less likely to be abused for political censorship as well.
Also, candidates for political offices would be needed to successfully conduct an IQ test and a long-termed character and personality observation and assessment program.
