Most organizations, especially private ones are trying to invade your privacy. If you think it&#x27;s only the NSA you are kidding yourself. She thinks corporate surveillance and censorship is a bigger danger than government surveillance. Whether or not you agree with her (I tend to -- you can&#x27;t vote Zuckerberg out of control of facebook, and he has no responsibility to be accountable or transparent to the citizenry. Facebook is run by orders given from the top, not laws and representatives of the people, it doesn&#x27;t even pretend to be. Plus, even organizations like NSA have goals which are ostensibly good like &#x27;protect citizens&#x27; not simply &#x27;profit&#x27;) it&#x27;s a fairly reasonable stance that is not uncommon.<p>Also the government isn&#x27;t one organization. It is as wide and varied as the corporate landscape. She may trust NPR which is nominally &quot;the state&quot; (barely) but not NSA or FBI, which is a very reasonable stance to take. The most stringent defenders of privacy I&#x27;ve ever heard of as a class are librarians, who are -- you guessed it -- part of the government. Even agencies themselves are not monoliths; there are many people even at NSA who work in a defensive capacity securing and protecting systems instead of subverting them.<p>So &quot;More government! That&#x27;s ludicrous&quot; isn&#x27;t really nuanced enough.