In 2010, Associated Press published an article explaining the reasoning behind Google bending to China's censorship laws. The search engine threatened to shut down, except for a few services that are still supported like music, due to the drastic increase in censorship on sites deemed "unsafe for national security" or a threat. This counterproductive decision hurts the advancement in technology that the country is striving for. Fast forward to the current U.S. and I wouldn't be surprised if this were to happen under Trump's administration.
With the way that the government and large corporations indirectly control the media as well as the outcome of net neutrality, there is no telling where censorship and online freedom will go. Slowly, as our first amendment rights to freedom of speech and press come under fire, our ability to search whatever we want and ultimately our privacy could also be targeted.
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