This article sucks donkey nuts.
"Ethernet, which drops packets"
Ethernet switches Frames. It does not route packets. That's like saying a railroad track can drop a car because it doesn't like the passengers on it.
"they're trying to change Ethernet because of TCP/IP"
Your question just confuses things more because TCP segments are l4, as opposed to packets (l3) and frames (l2).
Liberals and libertarians have been decrying the Patriot Act for years now, and even though that time period has seen me go from "conservative" to "stark raving mad anarcho-capitalist" I still haven't really felt like there's been anything to get upset about. So far, I hadn't heard real evidence that civil liberties of non-terrorists had been curtailed in meaningful ways.
God made the integers; all else is the work of Man. -- Kronecker