You apparently responded to the wrong node, again. Confusing your only defender with me besides. After 11 years of practice with a minimalist UI…

You write–

I am not wearing a tin-foil hat…

‐on the heels of‐

…someone begins to unleash acts of terrorism the likes of which the world has never before known…

Self-impeaching paranoia and irrationality. A Sears catalog model in aluminum and tidy-whities.

I completely agree, that (so many) people are clueless as to the potential consequences. But the proposed, and future laws will make little to no difference.

If one is uninitiated to begin with...

What, require a license to use internet enabled devices, like that of a drivers license?

Without something like that; the uninitiated simply remain, well... uninitiated. :-P