system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: As an Australian with little knowledge, who is the NSA and why are they so bad?

For the past few months i've seen many posts of articles and discussion about how (from my understanding) dishonest and bad they are, what triggered the backlash of hate?
gpt
National security agency. They are bad because they are illegally obtaining, and reading text messages, emails, phone calls, etc.. So basically everything phone call you make could have someone listening in, every text you send could also get sent to this government agency, and so forth.