These two sentences: "14 people with 14 keys to the internet" and also "The organisation that controls the internet", too many people controls something too important for us.
Please, i do consider very interesting the subject you have brought to us in your post, in fact, i would like to add what i think is a valuable information.
This is issue going to be solved with the Interplanetary Protocol File System, proposed by a Stanford fellow, Juan Benet, the differences and inherent problems, besides the centralization of access and control (and we steemians know a thing or two about the benefits of decentralization):
- HTTP is inefficient and expensive, 2) Humanity's history is deleted daily
- The web's centralization limits opportunity , 4) Our apps are addicted to the backbone. You can read more about this in https://ipfs.io/
A 25 minutes video of more explained session with Juan Benet. IPFS Alpha | Why We Must Distribute The Web
Wow!! Thank you so much for your comprehensive response and touching on the whole decentralisation of the internet. You're right that too many people control the internet and that's why I'm very interested in the alternative to the internet, which is MaidSafe. I think that this company and their vision might fit in with your core values and even a lot of other Steemit users as well. Check it out if you don't know about this already Sono.
https://maidsafe.net
Thanks again.
Flatrider