User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/The Day We Fight Back: A Digital Protest/@comment-2163079-20140212010743/@comment-4839682-20140212014719

While your point is completely valid, I don't understand what people think they're going to do. When you do things online, it is public. When you buy something from a website, someone sees it and fills your order. When you send an email, the other person sees it, and the data exists on a server that someone else could potentially read. Is that a little unsettling? I suppose. But if you're worried about the government knowing what you do, shouldn't you also be worried about what the private companies that see that info might do with it? Maybe I'm jaded because I feel I have nothing to hide. I'd rather have the information used to protect people. Nobody is going to sit and read your email, you're not that fascinating or important. At worst, it's an algorithm looking for phrases. And if even one disaster is thwarted, that's a good thing. But stopping something doesn't seem to have the impact that an actual disaster does. :3