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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It starts with “if you’ve got nothing to hide why do you care?” but it can rapidly evolved into “now the government listens to everything and if you say one thing we don’t like it’s off to a black hole for the rest of your life” (see: north korea). Humans have a really shitty habit of abusing power. At its core, I agree with you and in an ideal world that would be the case, but we have *a lot* of really fucked up people who walk among us who, given the right opportunities, will exploit the shit out of others to the point of literal murder.

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