> If you had told those people the modern silicon valley was working to build a Panopticon and sell it to the TLAs they would not have believed you!

I think they would have absolutely believed it - that's what they were worried about and fought against. They would have not believed that libertarians and progressives (to use the terms of this thread) have adopted such an absolutely helpless, defeatest attitude and have therefore become moribund and ineffective.