And would it have grown into more than that? Into something that everyone, and not just military and scientists can use?

How would you have communicated without someone owning a server and paying for it? Reddit and other centralized platforms emerged for some reason… You would have to literally make that illegal, i.e. make it illegal to host your own server and let users use it.

You can’t just imagine some fantasy utopia, and compare that to the current system.

Reddit would probably never have existed without capitalism…