Don't vague post. Either be specific with names and examples and citations or don't waste our time with generalities about unnamed bad people who did some unspecified bad thing.
Yes, five years ago was the start of it all. Everything was just peachy before then. No authoritarian laws, no government surveillance, no enshittification (aka arbitrage of tech authoritarianism), no private surveillance industry creating dossiers on each of us that would make Stasi agents blush. It was all kicked off by HN comments five years ago. </s>
Please stop grinding whatever axe you think you're grinding, and put that energy towards something useful.
