I remember like 5 years ago all the outrage was about how the government illegally spies on, and tracks data, of citizens. Today all the outrage is over how do we immediately and urgently give government oversight and greater power to control entities like Facebook, which have great capacity to spy on and track data of citizens.
It's like, after all the Snowden and Wikileaks controversy, they just let it settle, waited until people generally forgot about it. Then as soon as a private entity could be pinned and scapegoated as the greater evil in privacy concerns, they jumped on it full force.
Now, decades long illegal tracking of data of all citizens, and having potential back doors into major tech companies, is not a privacy concern. Rather, Facebook losing records of who is friends with who and what music they like of 87 million people is the biggest privacy concern.
The fact that people actually entertain, rather than laugh in the face of, the notion that government should regulate private sector based on privacy concerns is so exemplifying of the overarching power of the propaganda state we live in. So exemplifying of how little people actually pay attention, how little people remember history, and how much their just thoughtless brains are just blowing however the social wind wants them to blow.