> Sure, these ideas sound nice, just like how "small government" and "free market", but how well do they work in practice on a large scale?
Serious question: do you know anything about the history or workings of the Internet or the ARPANET? Or how email or HTTP works? Your understanding seems to be completely opposite to reality. It took a lot of effort for Google, MySpace, Facebook etc. to build centralized systems on a large scale to interoperate with the existing decentralized Internet, and for the amount of time and effort invested into them they do not actually work that well compared to the regular Internet.
Serious question: do you know anything about the history or workings of the Internet or the ARPANET? Or how email or HTTP works? Your understanding seems to be completely opposite to reality. It took a lot of effort for Google, MySpace, Facebook etc. to build centralized systems on a large scale to interoperate with the existing decentralized Internet, and for the amount of time and effort invested into them they do not actually work that well compared to the regular Internet.