> Er, Yes! I'd say no one back then would have ever wanted the internet to be as privatized, militarized, and censored as it is now.
Erm. The Internet is an explicitly military invention and without it's (controversial) privatisation, you'd be unlikely to have heard of it. It's not meaningfully censored outside of jurisdictions that already censors all other media extensively (DNS-poisoning consumer lines is bad and broken but really very low on the censorship-scale).
"They" can't. Stop the scare-mongering. If you're not a good terms with your local government, you have dozens of alternative jurisdictions to select from. Even if you can't find a single friendly government to setup under, The Silk Road stayed up for over two years. China isn't even pretending they're not censoring the Internet, and their well-funded censorship agency still has to play whack-a-mole with VPNs.
Er, Yes! I'd say no one back then would have ever wanted the internet to be as privatized, militarized, and censored as it is now.
We need to take the internet back into the hands of the people by adopting mesh networks. This is how the internet needs to become... and fast :
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/02/24/activists-creatin...
With the rise of cryptocurrencies there is huge potential to make mesh networking catch on around the globe :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=300911.0
Non-technical users can already easily set up mesh networks using smartphone apps : http://opengarden.com/