Care to speculate on what action would be taken with the Internet?
You mean, ACORNnet?
I imagine that on 01-21-09, the Manchild will be visiting the U.N. to start the process. Freedom of information is very detrimental to Communism.
Pass a vague “hate crime and speech” law, then pound any ISP who allows hateful speech.
Demand the immediate shutdown of any site that allows hate speech under the above law, erase the site from the DNS servers by court order until a trial or plea bargain can be arranged.
Pass “no net anonymity” laws, so when you post “Barack Hussain Obama is a murtad fitri”, his supporters will see your real name, and where you live.
Broaden child porn laws to make it easier for police to get a search warrant for your home, computer, digital storage media, and analog storage media, and allow your ISP or neighbor to report “Suspicious Internet Activity”, this goes along with the one above in case chanting crowds outside your house don't shut you up properly.
Change laws that only apply to broadcasters to apply to the net (which currently falls under telecomm laws) authorizing FCC to take appropriate action in regards to “news aggregator” sites or other commercial “content” sites, to assure “fairness” and licensing.
I think that's a good start. This would take one or two omnibus crime bills, the right guy in FCC, and a mainstream media bleeding money and viewers to accomplish.
That's easy, pass some version of the "Net Neutrality" law that gives big price breaks to large corporations that can be controlled (e.g. Google), while making it unaffordable for the little guy to maintain any serious Internet presence.