Comment There is no reasonable expectation of privacy (Score 1) 126
There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in the world because there never was one to begin with. You can't lose something you never had.
We live in a web of interconnecting lives. Our actions have long-reaching effects on others, as theirs do on ours. The idea that a single man may live as a hermit in the midst of the civilized world is both absurd and problematic for being such a popular idea.
Privacy doctrine in this country has existed for one purpose: shielding domestic violence from public scrutiny. The whole private-sphere/public-sphere distinction arose so that some men could prevent other men from interfering in what they manage to pull off behind closed doors. Marital rape and worse violences have always been justified as located in the mystical private sphere.
As you cling to the arbitrary notion of privacy, you're doing little more than empowering men to rape and torture women.
It's time we got rid of the private/public distinction. No one ever had any actual privacy; merely artificially imposed curtains that conceal malicious actions by some against others. If Carnivore does anything to undermine public respect for such a morally bankrupt institution as privacy, then I'm all for it.
We live in a web of interconnecting lives. Our actions have long-reaching effects on others, as theirs do on ours. The idea that a single man may live as a hermit in the midst of the civilized world is both absurd and problematic for being such a popular idea.
Privacy doctrine in this country has existed for one purpose: shielding domestic violence from public scrutiny. The whole private-sphere/public-sphere distinction arose so that some men could prevent other men from interfering in what they manage to pull off behind closed doors. Marital rape and worse violences have always been justified as located in the mystical private sphere.
As you cling to the arbitrary notion of privacy, you're doing little more than empowering men to rape and torture women.
It's time we got rid of the private/public distinction. No one ever had any actual privacy; merely artificially imposed curtains that conceal malicious actions by some against others. If Carnivore does anything to undermine public respect for such a morally bankrupt institution as privacy, then I'm all for it.
