NSA Surveillance: Bad for Business?

The main reason tech firms are trying to lessen or stop NSA surveillance is that it is bad for business.

If surveillance is thought to be as great as it is or greater the big tech firms are liable to lose millions and billions of dollars from all the users saying to themselves, "Hey. If EVERYTHING I say or put in text on the Internet is being scooped up this could harm me or my children in some unknown way in the present or future even though I am a law abiding citizen." So, as users say less and less and do less and less on the Internet or any other way they find to be encrypted for business purposes, tech companies will or are already losing billions of dollars.

It is why I believe at some point the dangerousness of the Internet and surveillance not only by the U.S. but ongoing by China, Russia and literally all nations who have the capability forces the U.S. to be at a similar or even increased surveillance level to avoid a conflict with other nations on economic or even a wartime situation emerging without them knowing enough to survive as a nation.

As a result I predict the likely outcome will be less and less people using the Internet the way they do now. Less and less people will actually say or do anything important on the Internet or even through phone calls. Everyone will try to communicate without really saying anything or doing anything that might be misused by others in the long run.

We likely are witnessing the beginning of the end of the Internet at least as we have known it so far worldwide ongoing. I'm not sure what it will all morph to but I could envision families or friends creating their own code words for things so others can't know what they are talking about in order to protect themselves from present or future harm by nations or companies. And these people all will be law abiding citizens of all nations.