We all know that the internet is a product of US military agencies. Yet, the default idea is that the internet means (more or less) free flow of information and a good thing in general.
But is that so? Could it be that the internet was just another con from the get go? Just a bit longer one than the rest of them. After all, we've seen it before.
For example, smartphones. At the start it was all fun and games. Then it got a bit more serious, but still nice and cool. And now it has turned into opressive slave device, with constant suveillance, that is almost compulsory to have and quite hard to live without.
Is the internet any different? It started as this highway of information, rainbows and unicorns and all that. But now it gets more and more censored, more and more oppressive with each passing day. If current trend continues, at the end it will be nothing more than totally controlled tool of oppression. Could it be that that was its design from the very beginning?
I will cease responding, as I do not align with your view. It is unprovable in any rigorous way and is just assertions with no proof. I don't cotton to those kinds of posts on The Donald, it needs to stick to provable things or mark assertions as personal opinions.
Follow the money and you'll get your evidence. It's not enough to gather a bunch of engineers and scientists in a room and wait for the magic to happen. Technology requires huge investments and the people (or rather the organizations like government) giving the money look for specific results. The results they are after are often disclosed publicly in white papers, memos, NGO think tank forums, academic studies and literature or brought to the political realm. One has to do a proper research to discern to what extent they are relevant or truthful and consistent with historical patterns.
It's no speculation that high-tech projects, especially when government is involved are highly compartmentalized and the people working on them don't have access to what other departments are doing or a full picture of the project. It's not their business to know - they are brought in for a particular job or to solve a particular problem, much like workers on a conveyor belt.