At the time, the Internet was also a hope to break the power of the extremely powerful print media (not originally Tim Berners-Lee's intention, but that was the idea of most early Internet utopians). In theory this still works today, but in practice I think it has gotten even worse: Opinions can probably even be spread more cheaply today by well-funded think tanks via a few, all the more powerful players - a prominent example is Facebook/Meta's collaboration with Cambridge Analytica. That's probably the reason why Elon Musk bought Twitter.