You cannot trust humans with power whatsoever; the more that power is delegated, the more that power will inevitably abused. The only way to ensure that the integrity of a system will never be damaged or abused is to build it from the ground up to make the idea of asserting some sort of centralized control a completely meaningless/impossible question. Such a system cannot have vested interests through service providers or backbones like the internet does; it would have to have a medium that is so trivial/cheap to deploy that any two people of reasonable distance can arbitrarily form their own network, or "join" an existing one through the individualized consent of others in the system. I think, as authoritarian/greedy governments slowly try to chain the internet, and large corporations like Facebook/Amazon slowly homogenize and destroy the experience of being on the internet into highly controlled centralized experiences, that such a system would absolutely be worth our time investigating, even if it comes at a price of reduced bandwidth, fracturing, or a limited range. It likely won't replace every solution that the internet can, and might in fact have to exist as some sort of parallel system, but having a system which facilitates mass communication that can be deployed cheaply and is difficult to control could be quite powerful to the common people if done right.