[apotheothesomai]

How about this is a very concrete example of what happens, when privacy is abused, and people are starting to realize how concerned they should be?

So, if not an event like this, how would more of the general populace begin to be concerned with privacy? If something like this isn't about privacy, is there anything that could ever happen that would change things?

Maybe, just maybe, people who aren't on HN are not all ignorant, stupid, and morally degenerate addicts. Every sentence you wrote is underpinned by those assumptions. It's very HN, but not very perspicacious.

[austincheney]

That argument works in reverse too. People who avoid Facebook aren't necessarily motivated by privacy.