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>It is not like overhearing a conversation in the park, it like is hiding in the bushes with a tape recorder. It's not like that because people have a reasonab
by treis 7y ago
>It is not like overhearing a conversation in the park, it like is hiding in the bushes with a tape recorder.
It's not like that because people have a reasonable expectation that what they say in a conversation will only be heard by those in that conversation. Tweeting is the real life equivalent of standing on the table and shouting something with a bullhorn. There's no expectation of privacy there.
>Total observation is socially and politically horrifying
It's not "total observation". It's observation of things they explicitly choice to make public.
- homonculus1 7y agoOnce again, there are degrees. When addressing an open audience there is an expectation to be heard by other human beings in a social context; but neither is this an invitation to have one's thoughts algorithmically scraped and profiled and flagged for assessment by a bureaucrat somewhere. Please try to consider this in relation to the goals of natural interpersonal communication, and not under the assumption that everything legal is proper.