I appreciate your enthusiasm and the longing of your heart.
I think I have laid out a pretty powerful rationale as to why this cannot happen regardless of your wishes or mine.
Rather than just wish for this kind of utopian result, can you lay out a scenario by which this can happen?
When governments have ultimate control of the entire system, to change it, kill it or restart it, at their choice, why would they allow this cancer upon their life to exist?
If the people react at all (they'll bitch and moan and do nothing) What possible meaningful action could they take to force governments to acquiesce?
They cannot stop it no more than could Pope Leo X stop Martin Luther.
You can not continue to attempt to use the start of the Reformation as an analogous situation. There is simply no comparison to an idea held in the mind and the use of a tool every part of which is controlled by the government opposed to it's being used in this way.
I would bet my life on it.
If you're serious, sadly, you will lose it.
There are so many ways a real impact can be made on behalf of liberty. Standing in front of the tank in Tianamen Square only works the first time.
Are you of the opinion that Dec. 21st may be a day that the government might try to shut down opposition on the Internet...like FR?
The Reformation was made possible BECAUSE of a tool (movable type) which in its day was analogous to the internet. Governments tried for hundreds of years to control printing, but were successful only to a limited degree.
The same will happen with the internet. Government will fail in its efforts to control it.
That’s my prediction, and I’m sticking to it.