Then YOU and people like you, who can't think outside of the Box, or are 'Government Puppets', are the reason we are here, right now... Ther are Basically 3 Operating Systems running 99.97% of ALL Computers in the ENTIRE WORLD (One of which is TOTALLY Open Source, and ACTUALLY probably the more Reliable and Stable of the 3)... The PROBLEM is that 99.97% of the PEOPLE 'using' Computers no ABSOLUTELY Nothing about them, past the On/Off Switch... That you believe that the Internet (at this point), is about an Idea, puts you squarely and firmly in that 99.97%...

To say that you can/coulda/shoulda connected, without depending on Providers, may have worked back in the mid-80's, but that Train has LONG SINCE Left the Station...

And, again, to 'regain' control, would depend upon that 99.97%, mentioned above, to do the right thing, TOGETHER, at the same time, simultaneously, and they/you wouldn't have the brains/guts/balls, to do it...

You CAN NOT, destroy the Infrastructure because it is so 'Intertwined', that it would be like cutting off one's head, because their toe hurts...

BUT, the Power Brokers Life Blood is the ALMIGHTY $$$. Do the MATH...