> what is missing now

Unfortunately what is missing (in the large part of the population) is the perception of Dignity, and the unawareness of the consciousness of their action (people are accepting and feeding the machine).

It is not just the awareness of the historic context that is missing: it is the awareness that what was built is bad, and that that they are partially to blame in every act of acceptance and omission in stating the "red lines".

A better awareness of human rights would go a long way to solving the conditions which make surveillance capitalism profitable.

Folks only accept these heinous abrogations of their human rights because they don't understand human rights.