I agree. My post was rather tongue-in-cheek actually. Call me cynical, but it just sometimes strikes me as odd how so many people around the world now rely on

I agree. My post was rather tongue-in-cheek actually. Call me cynical, but it just sometimes strikes me as odd how so many people around the world now rely on a company designed to make money by selling your information to communicate with the rest of the world. Especially in today's post-Snowden-revelations world. It's 'free', but that's how you 'pay'. It turns out it's a simple DNS block which setting to Google's DNS is fixing for people.