Do these people really really want to leave behind a world of mass surveillance? Are they uneducated (no way), sinister or what? I am legitimately baffled. Yo

Do these people really really want to leave behind a world of mass surveillance? Are they uneducated (no way), sinister or what? I am legitimately baffled. You can have one psychopath pushing for mass surveillance and corrupt or cowardly people will follow suit. But for this kind of asinine and borderline insane behavior to emerge in multiple places at once?