As the parent poster pointed out, doing nothing and pretending this doesn’t happen doesn’t fly anymore.

I guess, welcome to the middle age of tech? The part where you have to pick up the pieces and clean up the mess that you see around you.

No one is saying we should do nothing. Denying an obviously bad option doesn't perclude others.

Allowing the relevant authorities to control, shut down and arrest serious crimes doesn't turn a country into a surveillance state.

Poor surveillance controls do though - let's perhaps fix those instead of allowing garbage like Flock to spread and then hand wring? EU started with GDPR, let's see others follow and build on it?

Who gets to decide which crimes are serious enough to warrant the types of actions being advocated for? Who is going to implement and regulate such controls? Our governments have shown their willingness to violate those controls any time they see fit and are not held to account. Do you honestly believe that you could never end up on the bad side of that deal?