It would be a grave mistake to think politicians are clueless, lacking on the technical understandings maybe but they're far from clueless. It could be said that they didn't see it coming but it's here now and they do understand threats to their established power and how they can leverage this medium to push forward an agenda.

It's a long know fact that child pornography and terrorism are the story told to justify the lawmaking process trying to get a grip on the internet.