I wish I shared your optimism. Look, I sympathize with your point of view. I just prefer to not make my life anymore stressful by fighting for things I realist

I wish I shared your optimism. Look, I sympathize with your point of view. I just prefer to not make my life anymore stressful by fighting for things I realistically can't change. I choose my battles carefully by weighing my chances of success over the amount of discomfort it would cause, and in this case, I think waging a personal fight against governments is ultimately futile. The government already has my biometric data and they can use any number of surveillance methods to track me without my explicit consent. I take this for granted by being part of modern society. How do you propose a regular citizen could fight against programs like PRISM, or whatever other shady tech we have no knowledge of? We're not all willing to become Snowden, and live in a cave somewhere. Getting politicians elected to wage this fight for me is also relatively useless. The best I can do is make this slightly more difficult by choosing to use technology that—to the best of my knowledge—protects my privacy. Most people won't even make this sacrifice. So I think my time is better spent educating others into doing the same, rather than advocating for a fight with Goliath, which even less people will be on board with.