This article discusses a Pentagon document detailing their strategy against the Internet. Writers hypothesize that the Pentagon, after helping bring about the demise of the current Internet, is planning to introduce a new Internet 2 closed to individuals:

The development of “Internet 2″ is also designed to create an online caste system whereby the old Internet hubs would be allowed to break down and die, forcing people to use the new taxable, censored and regulated world wide web. If you’re struggling to comprehend exactly what the Internet will look like in five years unless we resist this, just look at China and their latest efforts to completely eliminate dissent and anonymity on the web.

Unfortunately, this makes a great deal of sense.