I agree with the direction, but not the blind spot.

Your audience is going to shut you out if you don’t show you understand their reality.

I reach out to people, and every tech and media person I know, is holding sessions on government over reach and invasion of privacy, raising alarm bells.

Everyone not in tech, has just about had it with being predated upon, being screwed over and in general would rather warm themselves on a bonfire of tech stock, than do a thing to support it. Voters are HAPPY to see tech brought under control.

The degree of fraud, predation, privacy invasion that regular adults encounter, let alone children, is absurd.

To take the most civil and benign trend I know: online communities are dying to a glut of slop, bots, and spam. Users and mods are simply unable to keep up with this, and are increasingly likely to ding users as much as bots.

A majority of humanity, who live in the developing world, encounter even worse, AND have less recourse to support.

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Success in these things requires connecting with people. You cannot do that if you come across as a know it all.

You must open with an acknowledgement that Tech is not doing a good job for users, but giving governments sweeping powers is not the antidote.