I’m glad. Yes, there are bad sides to Big Brother. But internet anonymity is the roots to many evils. It does suck for US affiliates, but I’d gladly trade a ban on gambling against the eradication of a pedophile network.
On a political philosophy basis, some authors believe internet causes nihilism and has many bad effects. If anyone cares, Prof. Hubert Dreyfus wrote an interesting essay about the effects of internet:
Kierkegaard on the Internet: Anonymity vrs. Commitment in the Present Age