Politician: Democracy requires that there be no restrictions on the ability of citizens to share their ideas freely, without fear of reprisal  Ttherefore the right to have private conversations, unmonitored by the government, is essential to democracy
For a government to monitor conversations on the Internet would thus be a setback for democracy
It is the argument's main conclusion and is inferred from two other statements in the argument, neither of which is used to support the other.