Re:Is there a solution against revenge porn?
by gregjor on Friday June 04, 2021 @01:47AM
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I referred to actual privacy, not the abstract right to privacy.
In 1890 most Americans lived with much less physical privacy than we enjoy today. Extended families, small towns or crowded urban apartments, everyone knows everyone else’s business. Police and employers had much more power to intrude into private affairs. People would spy and snitch. Women and children treated like property, employees under surveillance.
Sure, in 1890 people were free of social media and advertisers and the NSA. On the other hand their boss or the police could ask about very personal things and fire or arrest homosexuals or anyone perceived as socially deviant. If you go back farther in history you discover a world where privacy was something only the very elite might enjoy. Everyone else had about as much privacy as cattle.
In 1890 most Americans lived with much less physical privacy than we enjoy today. Extended families, small towns or crowded urban apartments, everyone knows everyone else’s business. Police and employers had much more power to intrude into private affairs. People would spy and snitch. Women and children treated like property, employees under surveillance.
Sure, in 1890 people were free of social media and advertisers and the NSA. On the other hand their boss or the police could ask about very personal things and fire or arrest homosexuals or anyone perceived as socially deviant. If you go back farther in history you discover a world where privacy was something only the very elite might enjoy. Everyone else had about as much privacy as cattle.