Using the "nothing to hide" fallacy is bad enough (general warrants are still unconstitutional), but if you think the intelligence agencies only investigate "a large scale serious crime operation" then you should really do more research on what those agencies have been doing over the last decade.
"...you should really do more research on what those agencies have been doing over the last decade."
Can you point somewhere out that shows what they have been doing, as I would be genuinely interested?
I doubt I do anything interesting enough for the government to bother about. But I do hold non-mainstream / controversial opinions about certain things, and I am careful about who I actually discuss them with, I certainly don't post them on Facebook or send them in emails. I wonder if I should be more worried than I am.
https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7443-the_price_of_dissent
Or the NSA's domestic actions for their "customers" (their words) at the FBI and DEA?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Using the "nothing to hide" fallacy is bad enough (general warrants are still unconstitutional), but if you think the intelligence agencies only investigate "a large scale serious crime operation" then you should really do more research on what those agencies have been doing over the last decade.