Similar stuff is afoot here in Australia...
Mr Conroy and his brilliant brain explosion with the Mandatory Internet Filter.
Latest on that is, and get this, that it is NOT illegal to circumvent/bypass the filter.
Errr, what? Go figure.
Either way, things are slowly but surely being limited, if not eventually "shut down", freedom of speech, freedom to do what you want in your own home, what's next?
Of course it all gets veiled with the usual moralistic words of "protecting society", "protecting your own children", (last time i checked i was the parent of my own kids, not the government) blah blah blah.
Trouble is, some people are buying the crap that governments are selling