Fire sale

Yeah sure:

Powerful people want to change how people access and use the i ternet.

There would be too much pushback from the public if they pushed these changes without justification.

So , in order to justify these changes to the internet, in a way that the public will agree to , they stage a cycber attack event that will frighten the public into agreeing.

This cyber attack will affect some vital part of American infrastructure, hospitals for example, and it will be on a scale that will shock most Americans.

Mainstream media will work tirelessly to frighten the public into believing that the only solution is to accept government proposals on restructuring the internet, most likely this proposal will include the need of a government issued digital identity in order to access the internet (or at least many sections of it) .