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This is the point the tech community needs to focus on. If we want the general public to care about these issue, we need to communicate the repercussions in ways that doesn't just allude to the ideals of "freedom" and "privacy". You need concrete examples of how this can and will go wrong in the short term for normal law-abiding citizens and they need to be scarier than "the government will know your porn searches" which clearly hasn't motivated anyone.