Like many, I was surprised and shocked by the election of Donald Trump as president. I believe his ideas, temperament, and inexperience represent a grave threat to our country and world. Suddenly, all the things I had planned to work on seemed trivial in comparison. Although Internet security and privacy are not the most important policy areas at risk, I believe he -- and, more importantly, his cabinet, administration, and Congress -- will have devastating effects in that area, both in the US and around the world.
Trump's election just means the threats will be much greater, and the battles a lot harder to win.
It's true that some of Trump's institutional changes might take decades to undo.
It's his job to justify sentiments like that. Without it, it's an out of context blog post. If you expect the reader to go back and read an author's past history to understand those assumptions in the text, then you are expecting a lot of the reader and not much of the writer.
But again, my question is: what practically signals that Internet freedoms under Trump will be worse than they would be under Clinton? I see nothing to suggest that Clinton wouldn't be similar to Obama. Why is Trump worse?