Glenn Greenwald

How did we travel so far from the original vision of the internet as the one place humans could communicate and organize free of state and corporate control?

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/video-interview-with-edward-snowden

In one of the earliest interviews we conducted with Snowden in Hong Kong, he explained that he was driven in large part by the central, vital role which the early version of the internet played in his life: one that was free of corporate and state control, that permitted anonymity and exploration free of monitoring, and, most of all, fostered unrestrained communication and dissemination of information by and among citizens of the world without corporate and state overlords regulating and controlling what they were saying.