I've been hearing a lot lately about how "the UK is killing the internet!" and "privacy is dead!" and so on and so forth. What's disappointing and somewhat confuses me about these exclamations is that, while I still very much disagree with these new policies, a majority of people have begun to see the internet as just a few sites, so if one gets worse or goes down, they think of it as a giant portion of the internet has been wiped out. I've begun labeling this type of traffic belonging to the blissfully ignorant as the intranet.

If you're in any way a part of the computer science community, there's no doubt in my mind that you've heard of or even support and use free software. If you already know what I'm talking talking about, feel free to skip ahead. For those of you who don't, I'm not talking about the price of the software you're using, though no price does tend to occur, but rather but your ability to use your programs any way you like without restriction.