Vitalik Buterin is calling for a “sovereign web” — and he’s right.

He criticizes today’s internet as “corposlop”: dopamine algorithms, data harvesting, walled gardens, and fake engagement designed to control attention, not empower users.

His vision?

• Privacy-first, local-first apps

• Real user sovereignty (not just anti-censorship, but psychological independence)

• Crypto tools that protect people, not extract from them

• No high-leverage casino finance

• Open AI that boosts humans instead of numbing them

The future of the internet shouldn’t optimize for addiction. It should optimize for freedom.