Safety is safety for now. Privacy is safety for whenever someone who doesn't like you gets into power. I would argue sacrificing long term safety for short term

Safety is safety for now. Privacy is safety for whenever someone who doesn't like you gets into power. I would argue sacrificing long term safety for short term safety is short sighted. This also isn't just privacy - they want to ban websites with content they find extreme on. Democracy doesn't work without the ability to discuss ideas. They talk about Islamic extremists, and you say "sure, that ideology is evil", then maybe they go after proponents of assisted suicide - after all, it's illegal and they are suggesting doctors kill people! Then maybe someone else gets into power and they ban abortion - can't set up a website suggesting people kill babies! Or perhaps someone else gets in and says "This party wants to defund the NHS! People will die, better ban that!".