Comment by int_19h

It's inevitable because we've seen time and again that all it takes to get the public opinion behind this kind of thing is to talk about how it is needed to catch pedophiles and terrorists.

And if you talk back? Why, you must be a pedophile or a terrorist, otherwise why would you have anything to hide?

It's gotten bad enough that people here on HN - Hacker News! - non-ironically make more or less this argument.