Do you support the current NSA surveillance program?

[Anymouse]

19. The argument "they just collect meta-data . . ."

. . . and thus you have nothing to fear, because the NSA does not get the content of your messages is of course a strawman.

Consider:
You get a telephone call from your doctor, after which you call a confidential HIV testing service, then your health insurance company. But they do not know what the content of your calls were.

You get an E-mail from your local National Rifle Association organiser, after which you telephone your senators and your representative. But they do not know why you called.

You logged in to Ashley Madison and spent ninety minutes, immediately after which you made a ten-minute local telephone call, but no one can surmise the content of either what you viewed on the Website nor the context of your call.

You received an E-mail from an organisation planning a protest, after which you call the organisation and chat for fifteen minutes. But no one can deduce what the call was about.

You call a suicide prevention hotline and chat for half an hour, then a psychiatrist for ten minutes, but the content of your calls are secret.

This is why the Fourth Amendment prohibits dragnets. All sorts of legal activity, in the wrong hands, can be used to blackmail or ruin a person. Just ask Valerie Plame.