You can all feel as hopeless and defeated as you like. When it comes down to it nothing in history came easy. With the Advent of the internet it forced the hands of those in power come up with new ways of making us think they are more powerful or have more power.
And unfortunately it works like a charm. A tech revolution would completely undermine the entire worlds markets over night. With the help of HN, it's members and a few months and some serious agenda pushing anything can get done. Problem is you all feel so defeated nobody wants to agree on the same agenda.
Like I said. It works. But we know how now. And with all the brain power on HN it's only a matter of time before they start targeting us. And they already have by passing this and putting that shit head in charge of the FCC.