Because 'privacy' to them meant a wall around their toilets, and being isolated. They didn't realize it was a question of ownership, not seclusion vs. publicity. A publicly-traded company owns your data, and that is known as a private enterprise. Real ownership and sovereignty are important concepts. So I promote democratic ownership-structures, like #coOps. That is a strategy beyond left and right..

I criticized social circles of some of the first groups of young people to build IRL communities, having met online, back in the aughts. I said; Tech optimism is short sighted. Look at who owns and is benefited. In private hands, all your data will change its' meaning when it is sold, or in war time. They didn't think it mattered, till Snowden, two decades later. #coOp