Nothing is a dumb pipe on today's internet. Remember "the network interprets censorship as damage and routes around it"? Yeah, that went out like JNCO jeans. Today's network interprets information unpleasant to the surveillance-industrial complex as noise and filters it out. And the information it does allow, it is very interested in surveilling and price-tiering. Expecting anything to be a dumb pipe in today's world is a pipe dream.