One thing you learn from game theory is that you need to understand the rules of the game everyone is playing. You cannot change them, you can only play by them.

"Making a cultural change" is not something you or any group of people can do. The superstructure of the game decides those, not the players. You can try, but nobody will play your new game.

I don't disagree with providing people with more privacy, but what you present is a false dichotomy.

For a long time we lived with private messages over SMS that were easily readable by third parties.

You are forgetting all the money Google pays to be the default search engine in every browser.

The same way you avoid it doing anything else illegal that involves cash.

Crime is risky, but not pure anarchy. It is still based on trust and rules, just not those written in the law.

There are plenty of regular people who interact with criminals, for example drug dealers, without getting murdered or robbed of all the cash they are carrying.

In Argentina, years ago, you could exchange dollars/euros for pesos on the street and get a far better exchange rate than in a bank. It was obviously aimed at tourists, who didn't get robbed, or the whole enterprise would stop.

Then the others should also not be shielded from criticism instead of focusing only on the one you personally dislike, or his social media.

There is plenty of toxic behavior on other platforms, especially Reddit and Bluesky, to name a few. That does not excuse the one coming from X, but the opposite is also true.