This reminds me what one of my former bosses told me almost twenty years ago about the future of the Internet (heavily plagued by E-Mail spam at that time) : Internet would evolve towards a two-tiered, two-class, double standard system where you would either be free/independent but exposed to malicious actors (pirates, spammers etc...), or gain access to some degree of protection at the cost of becoming dependent on commercial/big actors (it also reminds me Benjamin Franklin's famous quote "If you give up your freedom for safety, you don’t deserve either one" (and will lose both)).
And it's exactly what happened, first on E-Mail hosting, where it was so complex for a server to prove its credentials (in order to avoid being blacklisted) that only a few actors remained (or at least servers managed by very skilled sysadmins). And now, as you say, so many regulations put a lot of legal accountability on content providers that it has become a nightmare.

That's partly because people always search for others to blame instead of taking responsibility.
For example when a child is exposed to wrong content, parents don't take responsibility for it but point fingers at the hosting platform that let it happen. That results in serious investments being made in automated security and detection processes, something the smaller platforms don't have the resources for. Therefore only the few biggest survive. And once the competition is all gone they can do whatever they want.

@Thierry-GearsManiac I am happy for liberating us in regard of (SSL/TLS; CA-browseraccepted) certificates from Let'sEncrypt. This allowed for plenty of easily-to-be-secured things to come and just consumed.. or at least making security more easy (and available without costs) for everybody.

So I hope there will (hopefully) always be some people fighting for liberating things. :)

9 minutes ago, aFrInaTi0n said:

@Thierry-GearsManiac I am happy for liberating us in regard of (SSL/TLS; CA-browseraccepted) certificates from Let'sEncrypt. This allowed for plenty of easily-to-be-secured things to come and just consumed.. or at least making security more easy (and available without costs) for everybody.

So I hope there will (hopefully) always be some people fighting for liberating things. :)

I've vaguely heard of Let'sEncrypt from my friend who enabled HTTPS on my personal Web space ; however I'm rather "dumb"(unskilled) in this area of computer science, so that I don't exactly understand everything you are saying, except that it is positive.