I wouldn’t say it was gated. More like it was costly. And people having the means to do so was a very small set and prone to agree with the status quo. But eve

I wouldn’t say it was gated. More like it was costly. And people having the means to do so was a very small set and prone to agree with the status quo. But even now, a lot of messages are lost on the internet. And the internet is only decentralized for messages propagation, not for access.