Comment by miloignis

While I believe that you can't solve (at least permanently) political problems with technology, and we need political action, you can prevent a good bit of surveillance with technology if you invest in setting it up.

E2EE for chats (Matrix, Signal, or XMPP) is pretty solid I think. More shaky, Tor/reputable VPNs or some combo for browsing. FOSS ROMs for phones (Graphene), or Librum/PinePhone if you can deal with not always having a working phone.

It's not a great situation, but it's not hopeless!