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I think the internet will develop it's own social rules that will transcend national rules.
Social mores will have a lot more to play in this than people asking for control.
Here at TFP we can talk about pretty much everything, but certain actions, or subjects, are not tolerated and are mediated. Pictures of children and direct attacks on other people are just 2 examples.
No-one is upset by those rules and a very large community both embraces and abides by them, usually of their own accord.
The internet is like a child and is still finding out its own rules about what is acceptable speech.
Places like the TFP will exert their standards through their poularity and that's the crunch.
Most people don't care what the terrorists and extremists say.
Most people roll their eyes at the mention of Farrakhan or that guy on Fox.
The problem is not freedom of speech, but that the media looking for sensationalism, give time and space for those people to be heard.
Left on their own, those people can be given freedom of speech without trouble. It's the VOLUME allowed to that speech, by your own papers and tv that cause the trouble.
Left to themselves, people will generally make an informed well-meaning decision.
Even so, there'll also always be the bottom ends of the bell-curve.
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