The clearnet has rules that the darknet does not. The clearnet was established by the state, and governments have kept a firm grip on it ever since it's creation. The first amendemnt of the US constitution means that SOME portions of the clearnet will have some protection from interference, but even the US government imposes strict requirements on users of the clearnet. (And the US supreme court has long since waived any right to protection from those requirements.) There have been attempts to create censorship resistent platforms on the clearnet, (Nostr, Arweave, etc...) however, these platforms are not truly censorship resistent so much as they simply deny data hosting users the ability to perform their legal duties. If data hosting users are not able to fulfil their state imposed obligations, then I see no future except one where the protocol itself is banned from the clearnet.