Is the Internet a good thing? Of course.
Is the Internet heading in a direction that promotes even more free access to knowledge, thus creating more problem-solvers, rather than more soldiers? Yes.
It's really great to read some sensible, well-argumented comments from people that can see more than a year away [and this includes all of you, regardless on your position on the copyright issue]

Trying to control the Internet and policing it will turn it into something that it wasn't, isn't and [hopefully] never will be.