Agreed, and it doesn't just go one direction politically. Totalitarian governments hunted and killed Christians and capitalists with tremendous zeal throughout the 20th century.

This isn't really about left/right, it's about power. Governments simply can't be trusted with the power to track and target dissidents at scale.

We nerds are to a great extent the modern gatekeepers of that power. If people ask you to track and suppress free speech don't do it. It starts there.