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Well, those slogans are no longer true. Initially, effort was put into making things more free, and this resulted in the massive flowering of the internet we saw in the 2000s, however, by the early 2010s, corporate interests saw the "benefits" of locking things down more and more. Of course, the culture of the internet meant this had to be done gradually (boiled frogs and all that) but this effort, through the 2010s, gave us the brightly-lit Walmart that is the internet today. Internet culture has also been replaced (conveniently, for the powers that be) with more unbelievably stupid culture-war nonsense.
I see this vision implemented in sites like archive.org and Wikipedia
The Internet Archive is closer to this than Wikipedia. Wikipedia used to be great, but it's been used more and more to push the corporate-backed Facebook-approved version of reality over the years.