To be a bit nitpicky, Internet is not free. The content may or may not be free/ad funded. And there are many problems. One of the major ones being that ad funded content is overwhelmingly often utter crap that I could live without. As a general rule, if I need to look for actually useful information, I need to look for content generated for free (wikipedia, HN, reddit etc) or paid content. There are exceptions but they are rare.