I'm down with calling a corporation intelligent (as long as you don't call it a person). But automatic content review is regularly bypassed, they can't even keep very obvious spam off YouTube comments, such as comments copied from real users, posted with usernames like ClickMyChannelForXXX.

So if the corporation is an intelligent collective, then it's regularly outsmarted by other intelligent collectives determined to bypass it.

Agreed, I think that's a good way to put it. That other collectives kind of "nip" at the larger ones and cause them to implement defenses.

Normally I don't respond but this is just false

SPAM filters on SMTP ports were implemented long long before any government mandated it - at the ISP level often

Further, the development DKIM and SPF, were incidental to any government requirement

Preemptively: The fact that the early internet was heavily government and institutionally focused, doesn't a government mandate make

We can look back further at the Hays code. That's just religion plain and simple. The feeling of, "we're sliding into a decadence which will lead to the downfall of our civilization" is a meme propagating this very sentiment. It's not a simple as just the government, but that does co-occur.