This is a good book on that topic: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf
People buy the things that fbit mentions because they do not know any better and/or conditioning. If part of the RMS' books can be distilled into some more digestable format to explain to people the importance of privacy and the four freedoms, things may change. This whole new technology is just that, new. It has not been legislated and regulated yet. Right now commercial enterprise does as they want with user data, this should not be so. Proprietary software is used for government and education. This should not be so. When you try to explain the importance of free software to others, their eyes glaze over or they ask, "can you install it on Windows?". Even so-called sophisticated computer users and technicians who know better, buy these very things that violate privacy. Some do so automatically because everybody else buys it and advertising, others because there is money in it as a developer. The idea of FSF and Libre software usually enters people's minds when they reach university. By then, they have been indoctrinated into the proprietary stuff that it is tough to break out of the loop. Educate these ideas to youngsters, explain to them the importance of free software to a society that wants to be free. It is like educating the importance of taking care of the environment. Libre software and the environment should go hand-in-hand. Libre software ought be taught in schools and used as tools to teach with. Proprietary whatever has no place in government or educational spaces. Do we write to our senator to ask that Libre software be part of social fabric of our society? Perhaps now is the time.
Time to take Free Software Free Society to primary schools, libraries, community centres and any other such civic engagment. RMS' book is still obscure and this should not be so.
