You could use subjective reputation systems to establish routing preferences per node. You could introduce _some_ opt-in centralization at appropriate levels in geographic communities. You could introduce opt-in hierarchy in the same way ("I choose this gateway/router and I trust it wrt the peers it routes to"). None of these are perfect solutions, but I don't enjoy seeing people throw the baby out with the bathwater, because I do think we have an upcoming networking and connectivity emergency on our hands when State actors and/or megacorps decide to turn their malign attention towards Internet infrastructure and it would be great to start exploring mitigations early. Do you have other solutions? I'd love to hear them.

you could do all of that, my point was just that the technology doesn't exist still, that's what triggered this discussion, so now you're agreeing with me basically