But am I the only one that doesn't have a problem with this. The set of people that visit the dark web intersects with the set of terrorists so obviously they should look into those people.
>their spies are terrorists, wow
Their spies are a special case.
If you don't want to abide by the laws of the UK then nobody is forcing you to live here.
Oh please, this is just another way of saying "if you're disenfranchised you don't belong here."
People born in the UK are absolutely forced to live there in the short term-- You need a passport to leave the country, and the means to afford resettlement.
It's the same in any government, even more so to the "top ones" because other countries are using them as a "model" or "pattern" for their own use or version. (Although of course, it's not your country's problem.)
From where I live, we're already battling this same mindset that "if you have nothing to hide, you don't need [1] encryption; [2] online privacy; [3] dark web; [4] anonymity. And in our neigbouring countries, it's much worse. We're not even "members" of the "Fourteen Eyes".
:)
The rest of your post makes this hard to believe.
Some laws are dumb and should be broken.
Most social progress throughout history has come from people breaking the law, civil disobedience and dissidence.