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RE: If you knew you were under surveillance would it affect your behavior?

in #life8 years ago

"But who even asked the question before me?"
Michel Foucault did :) Thanks a lot for bringing this topic btw. Panopticon fatigue exists but we can't cluster it as a mental illness. Psychology is a normative science and it only calls deviances from the norm as an illness. Since panopticism is the immanent frame of modernity, we tend to see it as a normal thing and not even think about it. Because we know it's nothing special to us and everyone shares the same experience with us. We passively accept it.
At the beginning of the century, increased surveillance was a privilege of states. The fear of being watched was only sourcing from state authority. But with the advent of Surveillance capitalism, I think people are more afraid of private companies like google or facebook. I personally know lots of people putting tapes on their webcams. Or I personally don't feel secure while I am watching porn. Because there is no way that i can be sure whether my web traffic is being watched and filed at that moment. I guess we all experience the panopticon fatigue but we are not aware of how tired we are.
Let me ask you one question: What about blockchain? Everyone can see each other's every transaction. How do you feel about it? Personally, I am not sure about my feelings

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Should porn watching be secret or should it be transparent? I would say the only reason people have any discomfort about porn is due to the in my opinion primitive fear of human sexuality.

Sex in the form of porn is therefore given a negative connotation. There is also the link people make connecting porn to sex trafficking. I'm not really sure this link is based in reality but there are arguments that all porn is "evil".

What is your opinion of a blockchain like technology where people can watch porn and follow others who watch the same porn? This would make it transparent and reduce the fear of surveillance.

For the most part you are correct. Cookies do know what porn we watch and these cookies are all forming a digital footprint.

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