Exactly right. This is a separate topic but maybe an important one.
The global Internet, because it reflects the majority of humanity right now, is probably the single most valuable intelligence tool we have. By that I don't mean intelligence in terms of state intelligence but in terms of open intelligence. Literally, it allows us to gain perspective on what previously would have been local water-cooler conversations, but at a distance—not by using the capabilities of a CSEC to listen in on the very specific conversations of two individuals but literally by being able to listen in to it in a crowd.
I think that aspect of it is something that is greatly underappreciated. My colleagues in the intelligence community in the United States will openly say that 80% to 90% of useful intelligence is open source intelligence. It's not the stuff that we pay the institutions for, it's the stuff that literally exists and needs to be simply processed from the street.