I follow the posts of Lauren Weinstein, who has been around since the beginning of the Internet, and is deeply involved in matters of technology, especially network neutrality and privacy issues.
This morning he posted the following on his Google Plus account:
Trump will likely sign legislation to impose government control over Google search results and those of other search engines.
For the record, a staffer I know who is very involved with the Trump cadre tells me that Trump's handlers very much want him to push legislation that would enable direct government control over search engine results (with Google the specific target). This would be a specific part of wide-ranging legislation that would attempt to limit free speech, to be passed and signed as soon as the Supreme Court is back to full strength with the first of what may be several right-wing Trump appointees.
Trump will likely sign legislation to control Google and other search engine results
Further, the Trump team already appears to have picked someone who it totally against any regulations guaranteeing Net Neutrality as their point man on telecom issues.
Donald Trump's presidential transition team is turning to a crusader against regulation as it seeks to craft a strategy on issues like net neutrality and the future of the Federal Communications Commission, according to three sources familiar with the effort.
The newly tapped aide, Jeffrey Eisenach, is a known commodity in Washington tech and telecom circles. Dating back to his time as leader of the now-defunct Progress and Freedom Foundation, he's argued vigorously in favor of the FCC taking a hands-off approach to digital issues. While there in the 1990s, he also called for robust penalties against Microsoft during the U.S. government's antitrust investigation of the software giant.
In 2012 Eisenach arrived as a fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute — and in that role, he’s been an outspoken antagonist of FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and his policies. In his research and advocacy, often backed by tech and telecom interests, he's slammed the Obama administration's efforts on net neutrality, broadband investment and more.
Trump transition team picks regulation foe as telecom point man
What this means is we can look forward to further monopolistic control of access to the Internet through conglomerates of large ISPs and service providers, all of whom will immediately favor the traffic that benefits their pocketbooks over the right of the consumer to have neutral access to all information.
Bottom line: get ready for the most oppressive government regulation and control of freedom of speech and access to information you have ever seen in this nation, plus unfettered ability of the corporate oligarchy controlling your points of access to information to let you see just what they want to see, all thanks to the GOP, the party that just HATES government regulation.