I think the last year has been interesting. In it we've seen 3 strikes legislation undemocratically thrown onto the UK books with as good as no worthwhile debate, the USA starting to arbitrarily abuse their control of DNS, etc.

People just don't give a damn until they realise what they've lost. Certainly techies are more and more getting turned against business & government by this, but the ordinary person ... as long as they can give all their personal info to Facebook, play videos on Youtube, and so forth, they won't care and I can't blame them.