> If anything, free software underlies and has enables the locked in, sever based, surveillance monetizing world we live in.

That doesn't sound right. There's an asymmetry here that you're ignoring. To use FSF-esque terminology:

Freedom-respecting software must be Free Software, and any software it relies on must be Free.

Surveillance technology can use Free Software, but can just as easily use proprietary solutions.

> Selling proprietary software for money is a lot less immoral than using free software to sell user data for money, or using scale to run roughshod over regulations

Agree.