> it's all about figuring out how this should be codified and enforced.

Democratically maybe?

Don't we have an entire police state apparatus to monitor the public and snoop on bad hombres? Why should Silicon Valley play the roll of unelected police-state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_center

Brainwashed is the perfect term to describe the cognitive dissonance and mental gymnastics required to adopt authoritarian and undemocratic ideals to "combat fascism".

> For our lives to have meaning we need "sacred" things to protect, things to fight against, things to think about

Like blasphemy laws? Brain. Washed.