The whole internet being released to the public, is a tin foil hat case for me. the french iirc had the protocols but not the strategy to put it together.
and the usa via darpa released it to the public as a strategic plan.
pre-internet was private networking with shopping and banking.
internet2 exists already.
besides my tin foil hat versions of things, should the usd not be as dominant in the future - i think the rest of the world is sensible enough to realize the "technology neutrality" layer 1s like bitcoin can provide.
Crypto (in most examples) is all open-source code. USA military has tried to fight the idea that certain types of non-malicious FOSS code = not speech . they have lost this battle in courts once. But this has not been decided in Supreme Court (which the case was not appealed to, presumably because military thought they were wasting $$ and maybe would lose ultimately if it went there)
I suspect that the 1st and 4th amendments will be important in future USA proceedings (if a truly decentralized crypto-commodity ever winds up being considered in such a case)
Besides this, DARPA has been funding zk research and even funding Simba Chain specifically
Tor has not been destroyed/killed. Maybe I’m an optimist but one would hope this indicates certain allowances for the tech
Dan Bernstein’s case is unique, in that he is a college professor.