Falkvinge is often insightful and I generally agree with him on issues, but in this case he is attributing to "online born vs. offline born" something that real

Falkvinge is often insightful and I generally agree with him on issues, but in this case he is attributing to "online born vs. offline born" something that really has other causes. His premise seems to be that the governments would respect privacy if only they understood the implications of their policies. But that's silly. In fact some older-generation people may fail to understand tech-related issues, but others do, and in either case the ruling class simply couldn't care about citizens' rights. They see an opportunity to gain more power for their respective governments, and a better position in relation to other nations, and that's all there is to it. They don't mind lying, concealing or spewing whatever euphemistic rhetoric or pretexts they can think of to mollify the public, but it has little to do with their actual policy objectives. There is a valid point however, that privacy is not about who knows what, rather it is about being in control of what others know about oneself.