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In our defense, corporations ruined the world wide web. It still has so much potential if they weren't involved.
Corporations are made of people, and people more broadly let them gain power. That doesn't seem like a defence, it's just a description of our failure.
It’s been corporate the entire time. The rise of the www literally fueled a global economic bubble.
The bubble was because of speculative finance assholes ripping each other off by pointing at the thin vaneer of corporate windows built on the tools that were mostly developed by the military, universities, CERN and countless nerds' computer rooms and garages.