@uastronomer not directed at you but more generally...

clearly, being right isn't enough.

i would take this as cause for critical self-reflection on why privacy nerds, self-hosters, free software communities, etc. couldn't mobilise society sufficiently to resist this outcome

what can be done differently and how to proceed now?

a bunch of ex-cryptoparty participants proclaiming "i told you so" is not a constructive way forward