As described in this Wall Street Journal article and many others on the Internet, the FCC is planning to stronger regulate the Internet in the future. There will be an important vote this week, and a lot of Democratic politicians are leaning on the democratic members of the FCC board to vote for the proposal of its chairman.
There are also strives by several countries - China, Brazil, South Africa and others to give the UN oversight over the Internet. Other countries - Australia, Germany, and currently the UK - have discussed or are discussing legislation that would allow censorship of the Internet for their own citizens.
What effect will this have to the common Internet user or Open Democracy, Open Source/FLOSS or other open projects on the Internet?