Threat or opportunity?

The internet allows anyone with access, anywhere on Earth, to make available pretty much any kind of content they want -- and allows anyone else with access, anywhere on Earth, to see it. Those who want to prevent you from seeing certain types of material because it undermines their power, or transgresses their taboos, suddenly find their job much harder. Whatever barriers they seek to impose, there is usually a way to work around them.

The world may be roughly divided into those who see this situation as a threat and those who see it as an opportunity. On the one side are, most importantly, regimes such as those of China and Iran, and also certain puritanical elements within our own society. On the other side is, pretty much, anybody who isn't a control freak and isn't thrown into an agitated frenzy by the thought of someone else holding different opinions or different tastes in entertainment.

I'm pretty sure I know which side is going to win.