Yes, the internet definitely provides an open podium for various ideas, however, I think we would be severely limiting the real benefits of the internet if orthodox views did not have their place as well. The point is allowing people several points of view so that they may come to their own conclusions. Limiting the data offered, just because it may be "orthodox", is simply putting people into a box with only a few toys to play with.
Personally, I think that Leonardo would've loved the internet. It would've allowed him far more opportunity for discourse with a larger variety of people than what he had in his own time and perhaps even find some kindred spirits. With the relative anonymity that the internet provides, he wouldn't even have to worry much about what people would think of him. He would've been a junky, imo.
Stephanie
In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.--Ralph Waldo Emerson