No matter what he believed, this kind of tomfoolery doesn't bode well for public discourse in america

The answer is usually no.

Always use a VPN when you regularly use internet that isn't yours. If you don't, you are essentially handing over your right to privacy.

Surprisingly, the unabomber had something to say along about this problem 20-odd years ago:

if the use of a new item of technology is INITIALLY optional, it does not necessarily REMAIN optional, because the new technology tends to change society in such a way that it becomes difficult or impossible for an individual to function without using that technology. This applies also to the technology of human behavior. In a world in which most children are put through a program to make them enthusiastic about studying, a parent will almost be forced to put his kid through such a program, because if he does not, then the kid will grow up to be, comparatively speaking, an ignoramus and therefore unemployable.

Two dying brands from the 90s in one place. We just need to round up the remnants of Gateway now.

Either that or some kind of Atlantis tie in, but that would have been just as cheesy as what they did in the actual end of the series as well.