What about the rest of the world?
Have any of you stopped to think how this may affect the rest of the world? America doesn't own the internet, but it encompasses a friggin' huge chunck of it. I don't want anyone invading my privacy (whether online or otherwise), and especially not some foreign government. Unfortunately, if something big happens in America, the rest of the world usually follows suit. In other words, foreign governments would start to adopt an internet monitoring system.
As other people have said, this one step may start a chain reaction of leaps and bounds. With other governments following, this could become a worldwide nightmare.
I haven't read 1984, but I think it's easy enough to see where this could lead.