How to centralize the internet and bring it under control

This is great. The oligarchy will have control of his life and his livelihood.
Of course the online companies won't take a page from the Gates book and jack up the cost for him. He should worry more about the Gates Act and less about The Patriot Act. That's not to say the oligarchy won't appreciate all that information made available to the N.S.A.
I read somewhere about crackers. I wonder if they will have time to wander thru all this info.
If one is truly lucky or suicidal, they should put their life's work in the hand's of others.

Just read the numerous articles about Google - some of the true ones look as if they're written by a rabid conspiracy theorist.

Data centers have been in operation for decades and handle huge amounts of corporate data, although they don't actually provide their capacity as working data storage. There are already well established means for corporations to ensure that their data is not stolen etc etc etc. This thing about no more hard drives at home has been going on for at least 6 years now (probably much longer than that) and companies like Google are saying things like: forget about your local drive, use our services and work on your documents from anywhere on the planet! But Google have absolutely unrestricted access to anything you do via their services - for all you know they're doing more spying on you than any federal agency... I'm sure the Secret Service would love to have access to Google data - it could be very useful for their investigations into forgery, conspiracies against the president, and (their latest role) hunting down terrorists. Nor does Google have a monopoly here. Criminal organizations also use many Google techniques to steal information as well. The internet is a very scary place.