There's a huge burden on individuals to prove that another organization is using data to persecute them and the definitions or persecution. Before GDPR did you know how vast the network of 3rd parties handling your data was? I didn't!

Without this, the next best thing is anonymity which is simpler to enforce and covers future eventualities.

>The solution is what it is in real offline life. A regulated legal framework that allows most and limits little, a open dynamic culture that accepts diversity and constant change.

The real offline life where people can be punished in the US for aiding abortions? Or where homosexuality is illegal in many countries? Or where people conflate a mental disorder (paedophilia) with a criminal act (child sex abuse) (intentionally edgy example to highlight the edge of what's acceptable).

>and the solutions are still the same - democracy, voting, making a noise, agitating our neighbours.

This is good advice for the Belarusians with bloodied faces and no change. Or the million people who marched against the Invasion of Iraq.