>>924414
>decentralized internet of yore to the regulated and rigorously monitored centralized internet of our days
Just how decentralized do you think the internet was?
Sure, there was a time when there were pockets of decentralized networks, but there are now, and there will always be, pockets of decentalization. the early internetwork communications system was created mostly by the military, which was, is and likely will be for quite some time, the only and one social, scientific, and technical, prime mover. Our govenrment, university, even business (though in recent decades, this has been (appearing as though) diminishing), all follow the structure of the military. all have a hierarchy, all have only and one head, each manager has some few direct underlings, until, at the bottom, where the real work is done. same with the internet, somewhat.
ARPANET was created by the military for the military. Looking into the protocols (the mere fact of their such designation), you will find everywhere militaristic structure (there is even one specifically for something called 'command and control': straight military). Much like war, the principle violence of militaries, and violence generally, recently steadily (inexorably?) declining, the inherent stricture of the internet is also being always slowly massaged into a freer, more eccentrically and eclectically managed tongue, which, occasionally throen by this bygoing stricture, must care not to bite itself off. It is a common misconception that, so throen, if not gagged, the tongue will bite itself off, but as any mindful witness to this affliction knows, all that that would do is redouble it's remmision to stricture.