While dark, this seems more and more true, not just for Ross, but everyone in currently more-or-less free countries. This needs to be fought on every level possible - privacy tech, lobbying, political parties where applicable (won't work in US), and most of all informing people who don't know - mainstream media rarely if ever does. For example, I doubt 10% of people here in EU know about Chat Control 2.0 or the other surveillance/censorship stuff in the pipeline, despite the former being discussed and almost implemented several times, for years.

I don't know what's holding people up. Risk? There are many essentially risk-free things to do. Time? It doesn't have to take any considerable amount. Money? 0.1% of a whale's stack, or 0.1% of several millions of regular people's should do quite a lot.