If there was a optimistic angle worth considering, I'd have mentioned it. This gentleman is running an industrial-grade snipe hunt.

Well, define "big military" then. Do you mean the military industrial complex? Because famously, the private corporations aren't the ones demanding that we design superweapons or send your loved ones to war. That's congress, that's the Commander-in-Chief. Your elected representatives take the deterministic actions that decide who lives and dies in conflict, otherwise war would be apolitical.

He's well within his rights to protest whatever he wants. Prioritizing a beef with Spotify just seems hardly self-consistent with protesting the technological advancement of the military.

> if more people had convictions like this the world would likely be an entirely different place.

A functioning democracy only requires that people vote. If you want to take serious action towards world disarmament, stop voting pants-on-head insane representatives into power. You could bankrupt every single PMC and military contractor in the world, and governments would invent their own to fill their own security needs.