I agree that the argument is naive. It entirely relies on the idea that government regulation (or more importantly legislators) are held responsible for issues, so therefore they need to be lobbied/pressured/made to perform.
Free software (in the FSF sense) has been able to be created entirely because a large number of programmers have positions/salaries/roles that allow them to do work outside those roles that has benefit or relevance to other people.
Linus was a student when he started Linux. RMS was a grad/postdoc/researcher etc. comp.lang.c had a lot of readers (and writers) that were in the academic establishment that had the freedom (both time and money) to develop and share useful software.
Free software (in the FSF sense) has been able to be created entirely because a large number of programmers have positions/salaries/roles that allow them to do work outside those roles that has benefit or relevance to other people.
Linus was a student when he started Linux. RMS was a grad/postdoc/researcher etc. comp.lang.c had a lot of readers (and writers) that were in the academic establishment that had the freedom (both time and money) to develop and share useful software.