> If you look at the web, it's very much centralized today. The web is not the network. The network, the Internet, is a collection of decentralized networks p

> If you look at the web, it's very much centralized today. The web is not the network. The network, the Internet, is a collection of decentralized networks peering with one another. There are nearly 90000 ASNs in use, each of which represents one or more networks controlled by a single entity, routed globally via BGP. I don't know about you, but nearly 90000 entities does not sound very centralized to me. Your average user will transit at minimum 3 networks to reach any given website. The network of their ISP, the network of at least one transit ISP, and the network of the host for that site (which may also be the destination). As peering relationships for some host networks like Netflix, Google, Facebook, and AWS get deeper, it's possible that they may not need a transit ISP to connect your ISP into their host network. That said, with the exception of Google Fiber customers (which is anyway still in a separate ASN), your ISP and the destination are separate and are inter-networked in a distributed fashion. While the "web" is relatively centralized (although has a /very/ long tail), the networks that underlay it are not.