The primary goals of the internet have always been surveillance and control. Today, it is merely following its original design.
Internet (originally ARPANET) was born out of a Pentagon surveillance and counterinsurgency project. It was implemented by ARPA, a US Department of Defence research agency that we know as DARPA.
The effort to change the public perception of the internet from a military surveillance project to a promised utopian land of opportunity took about twenty years and a lot of work – and it worked like a charm – but surveillance has always remained at the centre of what the internet is about.
Read more: The History of the Internet: Surveillance and censorship were the aims from the outset