Dunno about you, but my opinion has recently helped to successfully repel mass surveillance for my country and others. The fight is not over yet, but this battle was won.
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I was also spamming Hungarian MEPs for what good it did.
I feel like this and SKG were both nice "come together" activism moments for the EU nerd community. And while SKG was important as well, Chat Control was really an "end of democracy" moment and I love that we the people could shine the light on it so hard that it got abandoned until next time.
"Next time" might mean December, so don't let your guard down, for now. But it really was a great success
Not letting my guard down. If we go past April, it suddenly becomes possible that Hungary will also flip on the issue. We're working on it. I want to be a citizen of the country that pioneered the recipe on how to destroy a Russophilic kleptocratic soft dictatorship instead of the country that pioneered said dictatorship.
People say that "they will push again and again" but that's just how politics works. You have to go vote every time, in every election, get informed - reasonably, don't turn yourself into a terminally online Twitter-zombie, read news outlets that do a big piece every week, not 24/7 reports on tweets - get active all the time, because this is your lives, your kids' and parents' and partners' and friends' lives that gets decided about. Political engagement turns your country into something like the Nordics, disengagement takes you to Russia, maybe even literally these days.
If I was a schoolteacher with high school kids, I'd make them go on the ECI website, and check out the petitions, read them, and sign what they agree with, and try to instill a habit of doing so every few months. I do this, and I signed petitions that sounded right to me and I could verify with minimal research that they were benevolent. It takes zero time, and lets you push a continent of societies towards a better future ever so slightly.
Therefore, can you show me your titties?
Well........ This man can do it for you!.. 
So time to make a new system?
Well, some countries are already doing this. I've heard rumors of underground social networks where complete anonymity is maintained. That is, your account isn't linked to your email address or identity. They even have their own money and cryptocurrency.
Like Liberland? I'm always a bit weary as they like always seems to be sort of far rightish. Very interesting though, it's not like they're going away anytime soon at least that's my opinion.