Sorry about the drift into a rant. My point is to say that the standard playbook for creating social or policy change is broken. The playbook is roughly - 1.

Sorry about the drift into a rant. My point is to say that the standard playbook for creating social or policy change is broken. The playbook is roughly - 1. build awareness via a nice article like the link 2. people read it? 3. people do something about it? But very few people read. The actual issues in broad public awareness are whatever crap is on Fox news. Beyond that, even if people get mad they have no structured way to demand a change and it rarely happens. The rant is tangentially related because we still haven't seen any action on the Uvalde PD, abortion laws just got revoked, there is a war in Ukraine, we might soon be in a recession, the climate might kill us all, etc etc. These are issues where the public actually cares, but nothing seems to change. Surveillance is not even on the list with all the other fires burning. I guess I'm just saying "caring" about an issue is meaningless in the absence of the power to effect any change. We dont even have the basic ability to ask a government official a question and get a straight answer. We don't seem to have any common knowledge or consensus on how to demand accountability from the government. These are much deeper issues that have to somehow be addressed before anything happens.