The internet exists because of equipment and software that costed money, time, physical labor, intelligence, etc. to make. Nothing is free in this world. Everything has a cost.
Otherwise, getting rid of idiots would fix the internet. But poverty, not winning the genetic lottery, and tyrants cause idiocy. So, it is hard to fix the internet. The rise of Orwellian online surveillance, elite-owned media platforms with dehumanizing censorship, creepy phone verification systems, brainwashing social credit scores, and so forth will cause closed-minded idiocy for most people rather than open-mindedness. This is what happens when cut-throat idiots get involved in monopolizing the internet. So, it is harder to fix the internet now.
Independent journalists are literally getting attacked on the internet for exposing terrifying things that the ruling class is trying to hide with oppressive censorship, banning websites, blood money, etc. It is to silence victims while the ruling class lives in luxury during this COVID pandemic.
Most North Americans, South Americans, Africans, Europeans, and Asians do not have much money nor power. They are more powerless and less rich because of taxes, tax evasions for the ruling class, dumbed down education systems, dehumanizing censorship disguised as political correctness, social credit scores, Orwellian online surveillance, elite-owned media companies, government-tracked devices (like smartphones or Windows 10 computers), abusive international trade policies, occupational licensing, child labor laws, etc. The ruling class has successfully turned most people into dumbed down serfs internationally. They do this by monopolizing the internet for example. They monopolized the internet by making websites prey on people who are not part of the ruling class through anti-adblockers, V.P.N-blockers, geoblocking, dehumanizing censorship disguised as political correctness, and luring idiots into buying things from oligarchical businesses that keep them drowning in impulsive consumerism. Unconventional art, intellectual music, black comedy, investigative journalism, serious debates, and other things have been increasingly replaced by a false sense of security on the internet from this oligarchical monopoly.