The barriers to entry for building online will go up dramatically, as they have in every industry in the US over time. People mistakenly think the US is a Capitalist nation, with few economic regulations, when in fact the opposite is true, the US economy is very regulated. That borderline psychotic power addiction that emanates out of Washington DC, has its sights set squarely on the Internet as its next conquest. Why? It threatens their conventions - their understanding of how things do or should work - when it comes to political power and what they've always known. This latest election turned most of them inside out and they'll do anything to bring the Internet to heel if that helps to return their idea of political normalcy. The $100,000 Facebook-Russia media performance going on right now is all about that, finding an angle to launch from to begin heavily regulating politics online. SESTA is similarly about using a convenient angle to launch a regulation assault, to acquire vastly greater control.
The only good thing I can say about the powermongers currently on the move, is they're extremely obvious in what they're doing and why.