Indeed. In Belgium there is the “Gang des Vieux en Colère”, which basically translates into the gang of angry elders. These people are on my team for sure, however for different reasons. Ironically, they seem to exist exclusively on Facebook so if you are anti-Facebook you are excluded.
There must be similar activist groups around the world. I just wonder if they are organized well enough to have an international coalition somewhere.
The govs excessive use of private companies (esp. large corps) is a big problem that seems quite hard to tackle. My main gripe here is more fixated on situations where I am personally forced to interface directly with a private company in order to do a gov transaction.
E.g. consider this story:
http://techrights.org/2022/03/20/brussels-police-facebook
When a victim goes to the police for help and they say “find us on Facebook”, for me that’s far more damning than if the police were to hire Facebook to maintain servers but let victims access the data without registering for a FB account and agreeing to FB’s terms.