I do wish we taught engineering ethics, because I do not feel like the majority of silicon valley surveillance capitalism tech workers have any ethics beyond following antiquated legal requirements.

That said, in a global internet any technology that can be created, will be crated, and made free and open for anyone to use. We can never escape this fact, and can only educate people on how to protect themselves as individuals as much as possible.

Google, Facebook, and modern surveillance capitalism app culture is -optional-. Smartphones have turned into a net negative that make most people miserable for instance. I for one do not have a smartphone, and am happier for it.

> That said, in a global internet any technology that can be created, will be crated, and made free and open for anyone to use.

Maybe, but that's not an excuse to do it, like: "I do it because anyway someone else will". Silicon Valley is throwing a lot of money into stuff that "someone else" would do, and it is not clear to me that this someone else would always have that kind of resources.

Saying a bad thing should be legal, or asserting it is not enforceable, is not the same thing as recommending people do it.

I think it should be legal to burn flags. I would also never do it or advise anyone to do it.

Sometimes a free country requires allowing assholes to exist, and educating each other on how to ignore them.