Suppose the political party you dislike is in power and starts using their surveillance capabilities to crack down on dissenting opinions shared on the Internet

Suppose the political party you dislike is in power and starts using their surveillance capabilities to crack down on dissenting opinions shared on the Internet, and you spend time discussing those opinions because it's your right as a citizen to exercise your freedom of thought and speech, but they catch you and penalize you for what you dared to share (which would be a benign opinion), would you start opposing it? If it prevented your ability to speak freely about (and with) the candidates who represent your's and many others' wishes in a democracy, leading you to fear, would it become important to you? That's what it's being used for.