[drawkbox]

Keep in mind the goal of the internet, decentralization initially.

ARPANET Definition. ARPANET was a pioneering wide area network (WAN) that was created by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) in 1969. ... In order to provide reliable communication in the face of equipment failure, ARPANET was designed so that no one point or link was more critical than any other.

We have only partially implemented this at a systems level but have centralized at the information level. The internet can bring information to free people and allow people to live in 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' but it is being twisted to limit those things due to edge cases and extremes. The battle continues...

[hueving]

This is fully implemented at the network level. It's just the services built on top of it where this starts to go to shit.

It's dead simple to build your own intranets on fully open-source stacks.