Will the internet be filtered/censored in the future?

[R'as al Ghul]

The next step to protect copyrighted material: simply filter the illegal traffic.
Yes, ISP's could decide to become traffic cops and restrict your data flows as AT & T is currently pondering:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/0...ter/index.html

“The volume of peer-to-peer traffic online, dominated by copyrighted materials, is overwhelming. That clearly should not be an acceptable, continuing status,”

Of course, the amount of computational power that's needed to filter worldwide traffic makes this almost impossible. Yet, it seems to be a certain trend for ISP's to think about content filters in the name of the wars against terror, copyright infringement and child porn.