The hardest part of governing is trying to be everything to everyone. While the idea that the government actually gives a rip about what you're doing online daily is humorous at first blush, the reality is, as American's, we demand this kind of thing, even when we don't consciously acknowledge that fact.
A man walks into a bar and begins to drink too much. He leaves, gets into his car, and proceeds to kill a family of 5 coming home from getting ice cream. One third of the community is outraged that the man didn't take personal responsibility but doesn't want government to tell him what to do. One third is angry that the bartender, the manager and the owner (who wasn't even there) didn't have a process in place to cut him off and thinks they should be held personally responsible. And the last third are angry that the police didn't do enough to catch him while he was driving drunk and want more cops on the street and more legislation to stop it from happening in the first place. What does government do? They do whatever gives them the best outcome while trying to manage all three expectations.
There are roughly 350,000,000 people in the US alone. Government has a hard enough time dealing with the hundreds of instances of road rage, murders, rapes, burglaries, domestic violence, kids lunch programs, testing, FEMA, floods, tornadoes...this list just goes on and on. Imagine just for a moment the things that they know that you don't...and probably are glad to keep it that way.
To think that we are at the point of being 1984 is borderline hysteria. To think we aren't headed that way is foolish. But, more importantly, to think what might happen to you, your children, your family or your friends, not to mention the average person on the street, if programs like this didn't exist? It makes absolutely no sense to me why you wouldn't want someone watching your back. That's what programs like this do. They ultimately protect you.
If you honestly didn't think something like this was already happening every time you swiped your credit card, tapped out a text, made a call or sent dear old Mum an email, then you've been living in a hole...and it's time to come up for air.
Not sure why I'm going on a rant here. I guess it's the disgustingly duplicitous manner in which we manage our lives. We get angry when our guys lose and their guys win and they get angry when their guys lose and our guys win. Then everyone complains all while doing little or nothing to change the culture.
But I digress...
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