The rule here is “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it”; just map “regulation” into “censorship” and that’s the gross of the matter. Yes, if regulation gets too nasty engineers will find technical ways to work around it. But that shouldn’t need to happen.
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/prerevolution/section10.rhtml
To the Brink: The Boston Massacre and the Committees of Correspondence
The committees of correspondence provided this organization. The first large- scale attempt at close and continuous pan-colonial political cooperation over a large area, the committees linked all of the colonies as one political force. In Massachusetts the committees worked especially well. Linked to all of the interior communities, Samuel Adams was able to spread his message of political education, advancing the principles of colonial rights. The committees convinced local citizens that their rights were in danger and encouraged voting. The colony-wide committees provided a method through which colonial leaders could communicate, and established the framework of the colonies’ early attempts at independent government.