Re:New bill threatens journalists’ ability to protect sources
by pmiller2 on Friday May 01, 2020 @05:00PM
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I believe that, with respect to government, the separation of private and public life you’re referring to falls squarely under the 4th amendment.
The open question to me is how we can maintain this separation with respect to employers. The nature of employment as changed dramatically since the early days of the republic, and I don’t believe the Founding Fathers could have conceived of the type and size of employers we have today.
That employers have abused their power over employees to control their private lives is a matter of historical fact (see the Ford Sociological Department: https://jalopnik.com/when-henry-fords-benevolent-secret-poli...). Clearly, we need legal protections for workers to prevent these types of abuses of power.
The open question to me is how we can maintain this separation with respect to employers. The nature of employment as changed dramatically since the early days of the republic, and I don’t believe the Founding Fathers could have conceived of the type and size of employers we have today.
That employers have abused their power over employees to control their private lives is a matter of historical fact (see the Ford Sociological Department: https://jalopnik.com/when-henry-fords-benevolent-secret-poli...). Clearly, we need legal protections for workers to prevent these types of abuses of power.