Ask HN: How free will the web remain?

I am from India, an enthusiastic fellow citizen of the global web, have been here for more than a decade now. For the last many weeks we have all seen the SOPA issue, we have seen domains taken down and now a UK citizen extradited to USA. I understand that most of these people or sites involved are doing wrong according to some laws. But probably for the first time I am watching in horror as governments are trying their best to kill the Internet (India is not very far behind). There are many knowledgeable people here and I would like to ask them: what seems to be the future for users and businesses on the Internet? Will it be more restrictive, more paperwork, more "silenced"? Will there be a day when if I blog something ill about a government, then my blog could be shutdown? Edit: I edited the title, the question is broader than copyright issues.