'The moment government got involved in the Internet' would be from its inception as a government project for a communications network that could withstand nuclear war.
Even if you mean the Web, that came out of CERN, another government project.
Government has always been a part of telecom, it's key national infrastructure.
Consumer level end to end crypto that can avoid government surveillance is a very new development.
A more defensible position, and doubtlessly closer to the parent's original intent, would be amending the statement to "the content of the Internet." I agree that government is becoming too involved in that.
Like the physical borders that separate land, the borders of the internet are also being drawn in the form of applications, IPs, ports, protocols, etc. To me it's sad, it never had to be that way.
Even if you mean the Web, that came out of CERN, another government project.
Government has always been a part of telecom, it's key national infrastructure.
Consumer level end to end crypto that can avoid government surveillance is a very new development.