Is that true? Gobs of money transformed the Internet from an engine of open communication and information sharing to an engine of privacy invasion, mass manipu

Is that true? Gobs of money transformed the Internet from an engine of open communication and information sharing to an engine of privacy invasion, mass manipulation, and disinformation. The web was created at CERN and TCP/IP was created by DARPA long before the dot.com bubble and for significantly less money. The people who got rich during and after the dot.com bubble did so not by greatly improving on these technologies but by using them to commoditize human beings and monetize peoples' data. The biggest growth industry on the Internet today is the leveraging of that data toward active deception and con artistry. I'm speaking of the Internet as most people experience it. You can still of course use the pipes for productive things, but the bulk of the user-facing Internet is now a giant surveillance and manipulation machine targeted at the average user.