<i>Making decentralization the only strategy for the open web is a big bet, with little evidence in it's favor.</i><p>I mean, sure, if you don't want to count the first twenty years of the Internet, I suppose it doesn't have much evidence.<p>Author seems to be completely missing the other benefits, such as having a more open marketplace of ideas, of having a more robust set of different services to fall back on in case one falls over for whatever reason, and so forth.<p>The clincher for me was the appeal to "but but but we have to work <i>with</i> the .gov on this". It's pretty obvious that freedom of speech and decentralized control is anathema to every .gov out there today.