[idle_zealot]

It's not one or the other. No fundamental law states that the internet must be controlled by either powerful corporations or powerful governments. If governments did their job and enforced anti-trust and other consumer protection laws then neither would be the case.

[everyone]

I am thinking that wanting to fix the net might be living in the past. We'll never return to the old utopia. Like no effort ever fixed the previous systems of telegraph, telephone, radio, and tv, we just made new disruptive systems that ignored the old busted systems and created their own new one. Maybe the hackers of today should be focused on something like that instead of fighting a lost cause.