I don't disagree in principle, but without a solid replacement plan -- for the likes of the current large corporate users and maintainers of Border Gateway Protocol, Internet Protocol and ICANN and IANA, Domain Name Services and especially Cloudflare, DNSSEC and SSL/TLS and all the signing authorities, all the cloud providers and especially AWS -- implementing these policies would burn down the Internet.
And yes, there is So Much Wrong with how the Internet is currently used!
But without a really really solid plan for what to do after crushing the current power structures to dust and opening enormous power vacuums, the Internet Would Just Die.
And millions, possibly tens or hundreds of millions of people, in the worst cases billions, would die with it; if not in weeks, then probably in months; because, even in the Global South, but especially in the Global North, there just isn't robust electrical distribution or food logistics or water distribution or sanitization or sewer services or any other public services, or non-personally-powered transportation, or so many other things, without the Internet. Not to mention anything-like-social-media would die, perhaps a little slower, but die nonetheless. Not just the big ones. Not even just Tumblr. Discord, too; Slack, certainly; Reddit, absolutely; even plain old web forums, and soon enough, even email would die except for small self-hosted stuff which would melt under increased demand (and often is hosted on existing cloud providers anyway). This would come at an enormous cost in loss of connection with loved-ones, friends, healthcare providers, employers, government politicians and officials and bureaucrats, and just about anyone else you couldn't physically visit, which would have immense negative externalities in pretty much any domain of harm you could imagine. Even landline phones in many places depend upon the Internet functioning as it currently does, and cellular networks mostly do too.
Maybe it would, in the end, in some final accounting (by whoever would survive, starving or else having to bootstrap their own everything, hopefully with neighbors?), be worth the price -- in megadeath events (famine, especially) or hundreds of megadeath events -- that in exchange the current empire(s) of evil, which prey and subsist and are hosted upon the Internet landscape, would die as well?
I'm not sure, and I lean toward no, that this would be worse on net for humanity -- and all parts of the biosphere which now depend upon humanity; pets and livestock, certainly, but many species at various levels of extinction risks as well.
We need something solid and feasible to replace the house the powerful have built, unless we decide to burn it down with ourselves inside -- occasionally it's possible to exit the house entirely, yes, but not on a massive scale, or even a small scale for most people. And I don't know about others, but I'd rather not burn down the house I'm living in while I'm living in it, even if that house does evil to me and most others.
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