“Without the right to privacy, there is no real freedom of speech or freedom of opinion and, therefore, there is no actual democracy.” -Brazilian President Rousseff

Internet privacy is not a requirement for what I consider free speech. Free speech is the right to make your ideas public, not to keep them private. To keep something a secret, you only tell people that you trust won't tell others. Now our middlemen can't be trusted to keep the secret, so if you want something to remain private, cut out the middleman. Assuming the right to free and convenient Internet services without strings attached is the epitome of the entitlement generation. Freedom of the press didn't grant every US citizen a printing press back in 1787. Nobody today seriously complains about airport security, and the NSA checking our email will soon be as routine.

Refs: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/09/brazils-rousseff-trashes-us-over-nsa-spying/