Given I don't know your nationality, it wasn't an attempt to woo you by comparing them to anyone. I'm simply saying "they feel disenfranchised, so they're acting out" is kind of stating the obvious to almost any group. One could just as easily use that line to describe almost any group fighting for anything. I chose the American Revolution after reading another comment here literally comparing them to terrorists. I initially almost went with "Nazi Germany," but saw that and decided "it can go the other way, too," with such a generalized statement.
To attempt to word it another way, I'm trying to say "so what if some/many/most of them feel that way? Apparently SOME of them care, if they chose this cause. The cause of Internet-freedom/piracy/copyright. And often, battles (literal and not,) are done at the behest not of those doing the fighting, but the decision makers who convince/force them to take up the cause." (See? That can be read as a slight to the American revolutionaries. Hardly an elitist view of them!)
To attempt to word it another way, I'm trying to say "so what if some/many/most of them feel that way? Apparently SOME of them care, if they chose this cause. The cause of Internet-freedom/piracy/copyright. And often, battles (literal and not,) are done at the behest not of those doing the fighting, but the decision makers who convince/force them to take up the cause." (See? That can be read as a slight to the American revolutionaries. Hardly an elitist view of them!)