Comment by fsflover

> Till privacy advocates come up with emotional reasons why privacy is absolutely necessary (like grandma is gonna die without it), this is a losing battle.

They have already come up with good reasons.

"Every time you use encryption, you're protecting someone who needs to use it to stay alive." -- Bruce Schneier

"“Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” -- Edward Snowden

Surveillance harms journalism and activism, making the government too powerful and not accountable. If only activists and journalists will try to have the privacy, it will be much easier to target them. Everyone should have privacy to protect them. It’s sort of like freedom of speech is necessary not just for journalists, but for everyone, even if you have nothing to say.

> Pushing everyone to Linux will eventually lead to all hardware falling under some national security law

I don't see any connection here. Linux is already used on all servers and nothing happens.