The Internet was always anarchist

 https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/tech-learning-collective-the-internet-was-always-anarchist-so-anarchists-must-learn-to-become-r

Today's activist landscape looks very different from the days of Civil Rights marches, the Anti-War Movement, or even the Anti-Globalization Movement prior to 9/11. If we are to traverse this different terrain, we require a different kind of vehicle.

This is not a particularly new idea. Some will remember the Crypto Wars in the 1980's and 1990's, in which governments reserved encryption technology solely for military use. Cypherpunk and early "Hacker" culture sprang from this era