[thisiswrong]

>Did anyone ever really think it would be any different?

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/

[mseebach]

> 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).