So the consensus here is that the civil disobedience of Lulzsec et al will be used as a pretext to militarize the internet.  Government and corporate elites have wanted to do this all along, and this is a convenient excuse that the proles will support.

This would be bad news for bitcoin, because a militarized internet would filter unapproved traffic.

Do you really think we're at that point?  Do governments and corporations really have that much power?

Seems to me we'd need a much bigger and more urgent pretext than Lulzsec and Wikileaks.  We'd need something on the scale of Pearl Harbor to justify an internet police state.