FWIW, plenty of "true hackers" observed the same data points and concluded that the cyber-utopia envisioned in the '90s is a pipe dream and deserves to be dead

FWIW, plenty of "true hackers" observed the same data points and concluded that the cyber-utopia envisioned in the '90s is a pipe dream and deserves to be dead and buried. A lot has happened in the past couple decades as society has tilted around into the information age. Some assumptions have undergone rigorous testing. Some deserved to be discarded. I don't think anyone has the One True Approach yet, but freedom-of-speech idealism proved wanting as a strategy.