As VRML replaces HTML as the standard Web Browser technology, the phenomenal space you encounter when you move around will become more euclidean and straited too. It's already happening. Yes, but the point is that one is not limited to the links set-down by each netscape document. I agree however that the software does not encourage thism and in this way brings striation to bear upon the space. The advent of VRML viewers will no doubt make the space even more striated.
Control is already here, even if it's chosen to remain more or less invisible.
The web can do that. Firstly, a rhizomatic structure does not imply no control whatsoever, just that any control that does exist exists in local pockets. To some extent, yeah, control of the Web is local. I would be inclined to say that the net is smooth but that is not enough to save us, the smoothness has to be created. Everything is smooth, on and off the net, but the challenge is to activate that smoothness in productive ways.