The same is happening with the internet. A publicly funded development is being overtaken by commercial interests, and will eventuate in the destruction of the potential value of the system.
It used to be that industry could destroy the air, water, and environment without any concern as to the individuals who had to share these "free" resources to survive.
Government (you know the root of the word - to govern) set up rules to stop the industry's unhealthy exploitation of the "free" resources - so that individuals could continue to use the "free" resources. Government has certainly failed in the airways, the telephone systems, and it look like it is failing in the internet.
The world does not belong to the penis enlargement pill vendors!