I don't think we have read the same bits about the history of the internet. Openness and individual empowerment had absolutely nothing to do with the origins of the net.
The main purpose as far as I have it down was to create a method for (government) researchers to communicate and to have a reliable communications network in wartime.
No; your condescension aside, I’m thinking of the internet I grew up on, from the late 80s and into the 90s.
Gopher, Usenet, and IRC. Eventually, the web.
Yes, the internet grew out of government projects, but it was rooted in the openness of academic networks.
The “trust and safety” ethos is merely the staid hall monitors of the status quo doing their best to co-opt something that was only possible to create outside their influence.
Its healthy for them to lose, sometimes. Maybe even most of the time.
Opposing the “trust and safety” hall monitors is an ethical position, just one that’s (seemingly) entirely contrary to your own.
The main purpose as far as I have it down was to create a method for (government) researchers to communicate and to have a reliable communications network in wartime.
https://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtm...
Feel free to rewrite history any way you want it though. Perhaps you were confusing the world-wide-web and the internet?