[MetaWhirledPeas]

> I'm not alone in finding the specific emphasis on drawing the line at domestic surveillance a bit odd

We've always been OK with this in the pre-AI era. (See the plot line of dozens of movies where the "good" government spies on the "bad" one.) Heck we've even been OK with domestic surveillance. (See "The Wire".) Has something changed, or are we just now realizing how it's problematic?