Like seriously, that was like saying that arresting the purveyors of contaminated, tainted meat is harming the food supply. It’s an argument that seems to be intentionally reversed in order to destroy logical debate.
Think how the world changed after the PATRIOT (lol) act, and how many terrorists have been actually detained in exchange for such invasive measures on the general public. I'd bet the most benefited from all these years of mass surveillance have been advertisers, not law enforcement.
I think so, but this is backwards. State and corporate spying gets justified by the scammers and fraudsters, not by whether or not the takedown operations are successful. If scammers and fraudsters weren't doing wildly unpopular things like taking health care systems hostage with ransomware, etc, we'd all have a lot more ammo to tell the cops to respect our privacy.