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The problem with that is the vast majority have no idea how pervasive and oppressive surveillance capitalism truly is. If they knew that the data from their various devices and services was being aggregated by thousands of data brokers, and could be used by employers to pay them lower wages, or businesses to charge them higher prices, or insurance to deny them healthcare, or cyber criminals to scam them, most would be genuinely shocked that most of this shit is "legal".
The other problem is that there's no way to opt out of techno fascism. They are free to stalk you for profit and there's nothing you can do about it. Even if you live in a faraday cage they'll still amass data on you. It's hard to take a moral stance when you think they're gonna fuck you every which way regardless.
I agree they'd probably be shocked but I honestly don't know if that would be enough to motivate them to do something about it.
The Flock pushback isn't about the surveillance for most. It's a NIMBY problem.
The data center backlash is the same. They don't want it in their town. They don't care if it's regulated or not so long as it's not them dealing with the consequences (air pollution, imminent domain seizure of property, noise pollution, higher prices for utilities etc).
This is why campaigns against them aren't national and organized. This is why they haven't started a lobby group to petition the federal government to do anything to regulate them. They think they can nip this in the bud for their town and it'll be good enough.