Perfection is the enemy of progress.

If you can’t get people to vote for the better candidate, do you really think a perfect boycott can be organized?

Let’s start somewhere and build momentum. If you get more momentum doing something more significant, all the more power to you. If not, learn to appreciate other folks doing something more than just criticizing.

Sending personal data to Microsoft to see how famous I can become.

On Linux I feel really lonely and unwanted.

Interested in reading more, can you mention the textbook(s) your course uses?

What you said could be true of any event, but reality is, each of these events influence apathetic people to either become supporters of the regime or anti-establishment.

At least, that’s my theory. If not, there would never have been any progress in human society, if things are as static as you theorized.