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Good thing the US doesn't have an administration that will happily criminalize any opposition

If this is your threat model, then VPNs are definitively not enough. Still a European VPN provider might be better than nothing.

> As long as you are not a terrorist, all those surveillance programs will never be used against you

Can you say "as long as you have nothing to hide"?

We’ve known since WW2 and maybe further that governments have used surveillance against innocents and people they didn’t like.

So you're suggesting to use Tor for everything? Or what's your solution?

All those surveillance programs are a threat to everyone who wants to keep the technology he and his company develops.

There is nothing preventing programs of that sort being used for industrial espionage.