User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-5563192-20140204230119/@comment-20644-20140205000249

The problem with the "I have nothing to hide so I have nothing to fear" mentality is that it puts the burden on citizens to prove that they are good. In a free society, the burden is on the government to prove that someone is bad in order to surveil, to track them, to look at what would otherwise be private, etc. That's not the kind of society most people would want to live in.

I definitely agree that there needs to be some sort of intelligence network. No one is really saying that all surveillance needs to be stopped. That would be an equally bad idea. However, the aim of this digital protest is to make sure that the process is more public. The citizenry should be informed unless it's absolutely essential to keep something a secret, and these sorts of programs should be subject to rigorous judicial and legislative oversight.