Eli5 why is the government collecting metadata or online information in general a terrible thing?

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I understand people will go far lengths to protect their privacy but with the internet once you have a email they probably have a good idea about you already, and unless you are doing something with malicious intent the government probably (hopefully) doesn’t really care, so why is it such a huge thing?

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“unless you are doing something with malicious intent the government probably (hopefully) doesn’t really care”

There is literally NOTHING, let me repeat NOTHING that you are doing that the government would ever ignore.

People used to be called “paranoid” because “they” were “listening.”

Guess what?

Those people were absolutely 100% NOT paranoid, and were being surveilled.

It’s a small step from “Likes to look at pictures of people at the beach” to “CP.”

You get tagged on the wrong post, and your ass is grass.

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