We do not need to trust these people and we should not trust them.
There is no necessity for any group to have *control* of the conversations taking place on the world's communications networks. Nowhere is it more apparent how rotten and downright evil it is at the top than on the Internet where it is laid bare.
We are stuck in the tiny IPv4 address space so that it is more convenient for controlling psychos in entities like the NSA to locate and hack into systems.
We have a PKI web of trust whose root Certificate Authorities are among the *least* trustworthy of all the players on the Internet.
We endure SPAM because our security is woefully inadequate and it is inadequate by design to allow our overlords access and control.
We have a fractured ecosystem of cable, satellite, wireless, broadcast television and radio, etc, etc in order to maintain profits for rent-seekers who have captured regulatory control.
We have an infrastructure with encroachments like Treacherous Computing (TM, Patent Pending (C) All rights reserved). Few things promise to be more dangerous. Under the guise of providing needed security it renders effective security impossible.
We have, I am convinced, woefully limited bandwidth all over the world because it allows authorities to capture all traffic. If bandwidth were increased radically worldwide we would be able to keep a traffic level high enough at the edges of the network so that it would be in-feasible to capture, monitor and store all the world's traffic as is being essentially done by the NSA now.
We have encryption switched off by default. When it is switched on we have limited key sizes and deliberately weakened algorithms whose only conceivable purpose is to allow governments to illegally spy on its citizens.
DNS and routing are dysfunctional and insecure, essentially by design.
As a practical matter, https is broken. It does not work. Explaining how it *might* work if everybody did everything properly and root CAs could be trusted is not equivalent to suddenly making it work. It does not work.
We are rapidly getting into a situation where the effort required to throw off tyranny will be extreme and may well be ineffective.