> I will say that personally I have fewer concerns about programs to monitor public content on the Internet, than programs that seek to access, monitor, and store content that people intended to be privately communicated to other people.

You may have fewer concerns about public monitoring vs private spying, presumably because in the latter case privacy is being violated in a way that isn't the case for the former.

But both cases are nefarious, and you don't have to choose between them.

Both are examples of using public funds to abuse access to information from end users for political purposes.