I’m afraid I’m with you on this. The cynic in me says no chance. The feds have a chance to vote themselves more power over us, or not. Is there really any doubt as to how this is going to go? Is there any doubt that the days are numbered - maybe not extremely small numbers, yet - but the days are numbered for sites like FR. Hate crimes, hate speech, hate sites, hate content. Anything and anyone that does not gloriously support dear leader, whichever fascist that happens to be at the time, will be banned and blocked. Time to think about starting up the old FIDOnet dialup point-to-point systems again.
Big Brother will be watching you.
My feeling is that it will be made _criminal_ to attempt to hide one’s activities. Simple things like encrypting communications will be looked upon as possible terrorism.