[quickthrower2]

You were right to be annoyed. It is a very sad answer. Almost a “if I didn’t peddle on this street corner someone else would”. The answer is a cop out.

Individual citizens have much less power than big tech because they don’t have the lobbying warchest, the implied credibility, the connections or even the intelligence (as in the sheer number of academics/researchers). Companies are run by people with a conscious or not and those people should lead these pushes for the right thing. They are in the ideal spot to do so.