Unfortunately I think it would take governments to start waking up and treating internet access as a public utility. Even then they'd have to compete with ad companies to get the right people to do the job.
I think governments like the large availability of OSINT data from big tech, in a technically sound IT such giant collections would be far harder and limited... Similarly the effectiveness of modern propaganda would be far limited.
The power of IT is the power to store, analyze, craft, manipulate information, if you give it to the most than the most can be Citizen not just slaves...
