He’s right.
The Internet is dead.
I remember the early 90s, it was beautiful. It was slow and crude compared to today, but open and free.
Today, may it be the search engines, ISPs, government regulations forcing everyone to comply with their decency, law enforcement, mis/dis information, or intelligence requirements, the complete loss of privacy, commercial business that has structured everything to be a sales platform, or a few highly partisan monopolies that control broad aspects of communications and attempt to socially engineer things...
It’s an intellectually sterile sales platform run by algorithms where a few government bureaucrats and oligarchs decide what I get to see and then watch me seeing it, counting how many seconds I’m on that page and forcing me to click three advertising buttons to read a highly biased and amateur written news article, that’s all it’s become.
Everyone sees the power of information and wants to control it.
Instead of our government safeguarding the Internet, both from foreign and internal threats, being a neutral arbitrator defending free speech and the right to expression, protecting privacy, the government made itself the conductor and master of all (in the background).
They gave themselves the power to censor and invade every aspect of people privacy. They allowed a few tech giants to establish monopolies, in fact they chose the winners and losers early on as with Google.
Do you know anything run (controlled) by the government that works well?
The Internet is no different.
And most ironically, the access to more information and knowledge than our ancestors could ever have imagined, has led to humanity as a whole becoming incomprehensibly stupid and ignorant.