In the first point, I agree. What has changed is who's on the internet. The average person may be snooped on, but they're not very regulated. What's regulated a

In the first point, I agree. What has changed is who's on the internet. The average person may be snooped on, but they're not very regulated. What's regulated are companies, especially large multinational corporations. Essentially, when we say "regulate" today, that's kind of what we mean: regulating bodies that that make rules for large corporations. Increasingly regulated and a increasingly corporate came in tandem. On your second point... I think it's kind of moot. Sure, the international "old internet" still exists. You can take part in it like you did in 1996. It's just dwarfed by the new internet. I'd argue that's a technicality, the important parts of that internet's "freedoms" are pointless when it's a vestigial artifact.