Vitalik Buterin observed that the internet evolved differently than early Web 1.0 visions, ending up under government and corporate control

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“And I mean, a lot of the ways that the internet turned out in general ended up being very different from the early types of web 1.0 visions. That happens, right, both in terms of government control and also it serves as corporate control,” Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum Foundation.