Nolan"The End of Cyberspace" by Alexis Madrigal https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/05/the-end-of-cyberspace/588340/
The techlash seems to represent a turning point in what people think the internet "should" be. Which makes sense:
1990s: lots of small players, privileged and mostly tech-savvy userbase, rapid innovation: anarchism is great!
2010s: handful of bigcorps with more power than nation-states, large vulnerable population actively exploited by bad actors, feature stagnation: ehhh, maybe we should give this government thing a shot
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