Isn't this also a statement against gun control or generally anything that increases the power of the state with respect to the citizens?

Governments can change for the worse, and it will suck if they change in a way that makes you the receiving end of their wrath. However, the biggest state power that can be turned against you is their monopoly on violence. Who cares if they can surveil you, if they can just threaten to execute your friends and family unless you give them what they want?

Sometimes, we computer people see everything through the lens of computers that we forget larger, non-computer consequences.