The Internet became the standard for global networking in the 1990s by being an informal trust based system where the competition was things like Al Gore's Information Superhighway - these other hypothetical systems were centralized extension of something like a cable TV network and essentially had all the bad things we decry in today's Internet and none of the good.
Which to say, the lack of centralization in DNS or whatever aspects on might name in the Internet (IP addresses, etc) allows bad actors from below to do their terrible things.
But the lack of centralization also prevents bad actors from above from doing their terrible things. Centralized DNS is already a target - cable companies were complaining to congress about firefox from enabling secure DNS and keeping them from MTM traffic.
The Internet became the standard for global networking in the 1990s by being an informal trust based system where the competition was things like Al Gore's Information Superhighway - these other hypothetical systems were centralized extension of something like a cable TV network and essentially had all the bad things we decry in today's Internet and none of the good.
Which to say, the lack of centralization in DNS or whatever aspects on might name in the Internet (IP addresses, etc) allows bad actors from below to do their terrible things.
But the lack of centralization also prevents bad actors from above from doing their terrible things. Centralized DNS is already a target - cable companies were complaining to congress about firefox from enabling secure DNS and keeping them from MTM traffic.
Which is worse? I couldn't say.