I think it's a surprise to many people in society. Weirdly, it's maybe even a surprise to tech-savvy people who knew about all this, but never bothered to reall

I think it's a surprise to many people in society. Weirdly, it's maybe even a surprise to tech-savvy people who knew about all this, but never bothered to really consider or act on the implications. I do think that this is just how things work a lot of the time. The #metoo 'thing', or in particular the scandals about various people in Hollywood for example, were probably surprising to people outside the industry, despite the fact that they were frustratingly 'open secrets' inside it. And yet even inside the world of Hollywood many people never really considered the consequences of these 'open secrets' until the 'secret' part disappeared. On a more personal note, I've experienced situations where, in hindsight, a particular person in my social world was obviously a horrible/dangerous individual (think rape/stalking). Somehow none of us either caught on to their malevolence, or kept finding ways to dismiss it until some situation proved how 'bad' they were. After their 'true' nature became a public issue, for some this was truly a surprise, but probably for more of us than we'd be comfortable admitting, it wasn't all that surprising and we found ourselves struggling with the implications of 'let' things get so far without intervening.