The other part to this is what can they do about it. Kids these days see riots responded to with military force. Cops kill people on sight and get off unpunished. People get imprisoned over enumerating URLs and we're trying to extradite a person to charge them with treason for revealing that the government is indeed spying on everyone.

I don't think kids these days are naive, I think they just see that trying to fight this stuff can realistically get them life in prison and/or killed.

I've yet to hear of reporting product defects or opting out of Facebook leading to an armed occupation.

(Though security researchers might want to take care in how they identify and report vulnerabilities.)