We have these incredibly useful tools and data. And powerful, entrenched interests increasingly seek to cripple them, making their access and use solely depend

We have these incredibly useful tools and data. And powerful, entrenched interests increasingly seek to cripple them, making their access and use solely dependent upon their interests and permission. Voilà, the three-handled hammer, that you cannot use without the invisible hand of corporation or government to enable your strokes. I'm not a total libertarian, for example in that I see a clear need for e.g. data privacy that includes regulation that prevents corporations -- and government -- from turning my every activity into personally identifiable analytics datapoints. And I don't want to be vaporized or poisoned as the result of someone else's perhaps misguided cost/benefit analysis. But giving that status quo ultimate control in ever-increasing perpetuity (e.g. Mickey Mouse copyright)? No. Institutions have lifespans, just like individuals. And evolutionary needs. As for "the Internet". We who don't want to be wholly commoditized, need to create and maintain our own physical layers, and attendant security -- our definition of security -- on same. It's not about "something for nothing". TANSTAAFL. It's about preventing "nothing for something" and systems that approach this in a counter-productive fashion.