I apologize for the aggressive implication that you’re pumping and dumping. That was little over the top. It would have been more proportionate to say “your views are likely colored by your income source” or similar.

The issue I frequently encounter with the crypto world is either very faulty reasoning with regard to the implications of decentralization or silence about its very indisputable downsides. Your post was long on the greatness and promise of decentralization and then a completely out-of-the-blue “we’ll have an ID check”. Head snap.
As for Tim Berners Lee’s Inrupt…. First of all, his current viewpoints suggest that he got it wrong the first time and now he’s saying he’s got a fix. However, that fix is a) very vague, b) to the extent you can read what is planned, has all the flaws wrt decentralization and c) there is a for-profit motive, something that was absent in his original work.
Even if all the above were not the case, there is no sainthood for people in tech. As someone who was there long before and during/participating in the rise of the internet and is currently engaged in this new phase, I can say no one’s inventions give them any credibility in the moral, political, or economic spheres. But it also does not excuse them from being circumspect about the implications of their work.
Side Note: I was at Swiss Bank in Basel in 1990 when some folks from ETH came and demo’d a hypertext project. I don’t remember if there was a connection with CERN/ENQUIRE, but who knows. There were many others working on similar products at the time.