What's worse than them complaining about what we have done in the past is them questioning why we didn't do it sooner.
I think it goes without saying but they’re far more likely to listen if you’re polite and suggest possible solutions instead of just complaining.
Go to town halls if / when they have them.
And vote.
I'm half serious.
The arguments for and against are both pretty valid.
On one hand children raised with positive values and a sense of moral duty to their fellow humans may be able to shift or counterbalance the direction the future is taking, but on the other, we could be leaving them to fend off with in a pretty shitty world that may have already peaked.
Pretty arguable of course, but still something worth pondering I think.
The "fun" answer, to burn the system down, does not leave a better system in its place. The individual components are left to scramble to develop their own systems, which in the absence of strong moral leadership, are inevitably just as as corrupt as the larger system they came from.
In California, the correct answer would have been to fucking vote out Feinstein. She practically built the surveillance state.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago and the second best time to do it is now.
( of course, they'll never understand that things weren't actually dangerous in general and that they've lost tons and tons and tons of freedoms )
We as technologists should promote strong encryption for everything.
Is it a good chance? No. But it's a chance.
The short answer is systemic racism, but it seems that the practical examples of police overreach concern techies less than theoretical concerns about police overreach through surveillance.