[SamReidHughes]

That would be one way to get an electric company to stop overcharging their customers. That would not be an optimal choice. What you shouldn't do is just make the electric company pay back the customers what they overcharged, and have that be the end of it.

The electric company overcharging all its customers is also not an apt analogy. Some people are harmed by pervasive surveillance more than others. Also, most people are hardly even customers. The NSA's main benefit to me, for example, a person living in California, is probably in the tips they give to the DEA. I'm certainly not worried about being invaded by Russia or bombed by terrorists.