Your sir, have just described the Chilling Effect. It's a very powerful reason to oppose monitoring of legitimate communications. The Rational Wiki has a good

Your sir, have just described the Chilling Effect. It's a very powerful reason to oppose monitoring of legitimate communications. The Rational Wiki has a good write up. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Chilling_effect https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Chilling_effect