I'm sure this will be downvoted (edit: maybe I was wrong, which makes me feel better yet) because it doesn't really add anything to the discussion, but I've been increasingly depressed about this stuff lately, and hearing/seeing someone else basically put the words in my brain down here, helped a lot.
Being surrounded by people who think that anything involving computers or technology is automatically good and something to be supported and defended no matter the cost to our freedom, humanity or privacy, is incredibly frustrating. As someone who first pushed many of these people towards the internet and technology in general, I almost feel responsible for what they've become.
As someone who has done very well as far as careers go, thanks to an early start with computers and technology as a child in the late 70s / early 80s, I know without a doubt that I'm partially responsible for some of what I hate now, whether directly by way of cash-induced moral ambiguity, or indirectly thanks to projects I've contributed to.
I love technology and progress. I just wish that progress actually meant doing important things, rather than finding newer, more invasive ways to surveil and manipulate people as it has for the past decade or more.