What is privacy?
So what if a big corporation like Google knows a lot about our buying habits, or even knows our marital status, number of children, where we work or whatever.
All they have going is a data-mining operation that is being used to target marketing appeals. Frankly, I’d rather see a bunch of ads that would be useful to me rather than on topics I don’t care about.
The thing about data-mining is that no individual is looking at me individually. Now, if we had a government that was anti-pornography and they were searching for everyone who used porn so they could put a poster with their picture on a wall, then I would have a problem… unless there were so many others that it turned out we were a majority. They we could go after the non-porn people and shame them for being so fucking stuck-in-the-mud.
And if the FBI had somehow decided I fit the profile of a terrorist—well, I’d be very, very scared for the security of our country… but not so much that I’d volunteer to fix their problems for them. They can watch me all they want. I am doing nothing anti-American… unless porn is anti-American.