Well the government wasn’t “fixing private property”, as much as they were “expelling hostile foreign nationals from private property that were being utilized for malicious purposes”. They only acted in the case that one of these devices was an active participant in a botnet.

I know the government touching your stuff is an icky thought, I agree. But the only alternative in this case is you being held personally liable for your devices being used to commit cyber crime by a hostile government entity, which is a much worse thought.

Like if you own a gun and it’s stolen and you don’t report it, and a crime is committed with it, you can be charged with a crime in many states. It wouldn't be the biggest leap for something like that to apply here, if not now then in the future. I think the government fixing the problem for us and leaving us alone about it is just about the best outcome we could ask for.