Governments will always have the power over the physical infrastructure that the internet lives on top of. The only way to protect our access is via education, people need to see the internet as owned by the people, not the government (backdoors, unlimited taps) or corporations (net neutrality, anti-competitive caps). It needs to be seen as a new basic human right in the 21st century.

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