Hmmm, I'm not sure I see this as a problem. Isn't China a good enough example that having a government controlled Internet doesn't really solve any of these iss

Hmmm, I'm not sure I see this as a problem. Isn't China a good enough example that having a government controlled Internet doesn't really solve any of these issues, but in fact makes them worse? I understand the issue that corporations can do unexpected things, but at least, in a much shorter span of time, corporations who consistently bad decisions for their users end up dying, supplanted, or worked around. But let's imagine we had a totally anonymous, fully sponsored portion of the internet, what would stop it from being used for child porn, spamming, and propagating fake news? And even if we could somehow regulate it and not encroach on anyone's freedom and/or privacy, that doesn't guarantee that the government won't just change the regulation rules every 4-8 years. The upside to corporations is that if one screws up, then at least, theoretically, there are options. I guess my overall feeling is that there's no such thing as free speech, at least not in the sense the author means it (as im reading it, which could be my bad). As a member of a society, we all agree to abide by certain standards. So I think no matter whether it's authoritarians in a corporate suit, or a bureaucrat's, it leads to the same general dissatisfaction, but at least with a corporation, you can let your dollars (or ad views, membership, whatever) vote for you.