The NSA's task of surveiling everyone on the internet was made way easier by there being only a few personal content services (Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft), all of which operate as a centralized service.
Decentralized peer-to-peer would have been more difficult to crack, not having a single point of failure. However, peer-to-peer was effectively killed off by the chilling effect of music and movie industry lawsuits of copyright infringement.
Perhaps a political movement to convince people and companies not to protect intellectual property so strongly for a greater good of furthering peer to peer information sharing.
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