Does mass surveillance make you feel isolated?

I think most people would say no because they don't know anything about mass serveillance but I think it will be interesting to hear opinions from members here in HN who are likely to know much more than the average person.

its impossible to talk on a personal level with anyone. Even if you can convince them to get signal, they have to pretty much get grapheneos as well because Android and IOS spy on you and NSA builds backdoors into them. They can't use signal on their computer because they probably use windows/mac and even if they use linux i dont thiink they know enough about hardening and security. You also can't just talk to them in person because they will have their phone with them.

You have to go to such great lengths just to be able to have a nice conversation with someone in private without anyone recording or logging our conversation. It's basically impossible.

This means we can't ever be ourselves. How can we ever actually get to know someone else? Not just superficially. Maybe some coworker wants to hang out after work but you have to say no because you know it will be boring knowing everything is being recorded and logged. Or maybe you want to go on a date with someone you met but you know it will never work out because you can't really get to know each other when you have to keep everything superficial.

And this is also exactly what our corrupt and unconstitutional governments want. They want us to become isolated and their plan is working. Their path towards totalitarianism is working out and we're getting constantly closer to pure hell.

These secure communication apps are great for criminals though, they can go to these lengths and make sure their partners in crime do as well. But for normal innocent citizens, it helps but it doesnt help enough. Mass surveillance doesn't stop criminals, it only causes innocent citizens to become isolated.

And what does isolation cause? depression. What does depression cause? Suicide. So in a way, our governments are murdering innocent citizens in masses with their unconstitutional mass surveillance.

If you try to use freedom of speech to vent your complaints about our corrupt governemnts and their mass surveillance you just end up on even more of their lists of suspects, persons of interest, extremists, dissidents and become a target for even more surveillance and censorship.