Yes. But there was so much money to be made and so much control of society to be gained, it was hard to prevent this. > It's more urgent now than ever before

Yes. But there was so much money to be made and so much control of society to be gained, it was hard to prevent this. > It's more urgent now than ever before to throw away all this baggage and start a WWW2 without these politicized entities and with lean clients maintainable by small groups of people. Yes that would be great. But if we want libertarian world-wide network with services and rules that cannot be attacked by the establishment, it has to be either small and uninteresting to them, or it has to completely infeasible for them to attack it. Some new ideas are needed, because free software and open standards are apparently not enough to keep liberty alive on the internet.