And a brief summary of LN would indicate that the nodes required to run LN would have to be operated by regulated institutions.
Long story short, assuming this video segment is correct, LN is starting to look like a slimy way for banks and governments to take over Bitcoin, and turn it into one big regulated/controlled clusterfuck that kills all that BTC stands for
LN is a network of nodes. LN nodes can be run by anyone who is willing to do, similar to running bitcoin full nodes. additionally Lightning Network is using onion routing and there is no way of regulating such a network.
So is this just a bunch of fud?
for the most part, yes.
Also... lets say LN is up and running and becoming widely used... will we still be able to use the regular Bitcoin network, complete with it's anonymity ( for the most part )
as long as you pay the fees, yes. in fact in order for LN to operate you need the bitcoin blockchain because you make transctions on chain eventually.
and it is not anonymous by the way.
Someone please tell me something to make me feel better, in the mean time I will keep reading and making myself more knowledgeable.
https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf