To allow digital surveillance is to allow the government into your head and our children's heads.
No.
It stops here.
The only benefit to an average user is that no Facebook employee can look at your text messages. Law enforcement agencies don't look at text messages of average users, and even in the collect-everything scenarios, they don't take notice of virtually anyone, on average.
It's really mostly the criminals that benefit disproportionally from default encryption in facebook messages.
From the perspective of US law, you might not want LEAs to read your text messages, but even if they could, they can't do anything about it even up to threatening them. Free speech in the US is pretty limitless, up to the point that such speech infringes on the rights of other people or endangers them.
> Free speech in the US is pretty limitless, up to the point that such speech infringes on the rights of other people or endangers them.
The US Constitution explicitly makes calls to violence illegal.
Um, no it most certainly does not.
There is no better way to define "criminal", despite all the shortcomings.