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Certainly a mesh infrastructure would be less susceptible to overt control/monopolization. But that's only the physical layer. Any medium that allows access to millions or billions of 'consumers' will be unlikely to maintain real independence for long. People will invite the corporations into their lives, as they have since the 1930s when the public relations industry was invented by Edward Bernays. There are significant changes in our culture and politics that must happen before we will see progress. Whether that happens in our lifetimes is a coin toss.