It feels like the ultimate endgame of all of this is either that the technology industry just freezes (because innovation is killed by bureaucracy), or that we end up in some cryptopunk space in which the only interesting stuff happens over Tor/Freenet/whatever else.
And of course, the latter becomes harder every day with hardware backdoors.
I think that fundamentally the idea of the state regulating commerce is flawed.
Individuals want to be able to make choices, but at the moment they can't because economics forces their hand. Apart from a few radicals, everyone has to use a car, has to use the subway with its' smart card, has to use their mobile phone for business, because otherwise society doesn't have a role for you any more.
Can UBI help here? Or are we really just doomed to basically disable the Internet we created because it's too powerful?