Where are the LoRaWAN devices?

[ryo]

If I understand it correctly, this is basically an internet router, but without any middlemen like an ISP and an internet backbone, or am I missing something?

Well I guess they could be used that way, in a closed network maybe?  But I think the point of stuff like TheThingsNetwork is to to connect the (local) RF (LoraWAN) devices to the broader Internet via gateways, such that they can communicate over longer distances.

I wouldn't expect the mainstream clearnet to be accessible over uncontrolled ways anyway, it's not like we live in the early 1990's when the internet was still an anarchist, minimal environment that required knowledge to even access it.
Basically what the darkweb and deepweb are nowadays, except now we have them in many different formats.
So I thought LoraWAN would be more like that rather than the clearnet (which we are using right now), which would help the darkweb and deepweb a lot since both still require an ISP and internet backbone in order to access, except they can't really do much when it comes to censorship, so it's either full access or no access (which probably is why they call it "dark").