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Has America Become the Scariest Country in the World to Visit? (thearchitectautopsy.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by TheArchitectAutopsy@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Five years of your social media just to visit the US on an ESTA, and 50,922 phone searches at the border in a single year with no suspicion needed. Part 1 of my Five Eyes series: who else gets to see it?

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fishface, I linked you to a particular part of the article. Did you miss it by mistake?

Here is the part you failed to read:

The Panopticon [...] must be understood as a generalizable model of functioning ; a way of deﬁning power relations in terms of the everyday life of men. No doubt Bentham presents it as a particular institution, closed in upon itself. [...] But the Panopticon must not be understood as a dream building

If you are able to scroll down even further and continue reading, you'll also discover workplace surveillance is considered a Panopticon... Even though it apparently fits into your definition of something that is "circumventable", wherever you pulled that from.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I read that quote from a person other than the originator of the idea, yes. It is espousing that metaphorical application of the panopticon. It doesn't have anything to say about the applicability of the metaphor to searches in an airport.

I don't think we're making any progress here, so see ya.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

other than the originator of the idea

The word does not belong to the person who "originated" (labeled) it. I'm sorry you don't like the modern usage and have chosen to die on that hill, but the rest of us are here on the internet, not in the 19th century.

I'm sorry you refuse to make progress.