Technologists have been not only exceptionally ineffective at preventing this dystopia, they've been instrumental in creating it.

If a critical mass of individuals migrate to a network which replicates the key functionality of the web but is designed with privacy and decentralization at the core, I believe it would be safe to say that it's not in the hands of gov, big corps, or any individual.

Like Holo.host?

Likely those who use GPL and other copy-left licenses.