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by tremon 1105 days ago
There's very little need to imagine anything. Does e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36300410 sound like a positive consequence to you?
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The government is already listening to all your phone calls and reading all your text messages. There's likely very little in there they don't already have.
You didn't answer the question. Does the government (any government, for that matter) having access to all that information sound like a positive consequence to you?