The worse of the modern surveillance zealotry is the fact they claim they'll leave people with non-mainstream opinions alone yet I've seen all kinds of argument

The worse of the modern surveillance zealotry is the fact they claim they'll leave people with non-mainstream opinions alone yet I've seen all kinds of arguments that even people who support anarchism should be placed under close observation or in prison. This troubles me because the whole idea that even if you're an anarchist that doesn't mean you are violent or willing to be so disruptive as to become a terrorist. I'm a mutualist anarchist and honestly I don't care if the government exists or not since there's not much I can personally do to it. Just espousing my ideas seems to rub certain people the wrong way even if 99.9% of the time they're purely academic in scope. The fact that technology exists to allow them to spy on me means they can constantly harass me and others like me into silence or complete seclusion. So much for a liberal society, eh?