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In American law, the home is a sacred space. This sanctity is deeply connected to old the English common law and the high value placed on private property—but the special nature of the home in the United States goes further than mere property rights.
Democracy and the privacy of communications (1967)
In 1967, President Johnson’s Crime Commission investigated electronic surveillance and concluded that the state of the law was “intolerable.”
Morton Horwitz on the public-private distinction (1982)
Legal historian Morton Horwitz wrote, “The distinction between public and private realms arose out of a double movement in modern political and legal thought.” He concluded that the distinction was breaking down as “private institutions were acquiring coercive power that had formerly been reserved to governments.”
“Women and Pockets” (1885)
“The straights to which helpless woman has been subjected by the absence of pockets in her gowns have wrung from her many complaints that have availed her nothing.”
The telegraph and the domestic home
“American District Telegraph Company was originally conceptualized as a business service, but it quickly began to sell itself as a service for the home as well.”
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- @llmunro Next idea: writing retreat but with goats
- @zaranosaur The cross-Atlantic answer is always “punish the poor more” with a bit of convincing the middle class (Am. def) that’s all that’s happening so you can screw them more too
- @DiegoATLAW @CIS_org I mean, it's probably like teaching the comp sci peeps taking a required history course who just LOVE Ayn Rand, so... no, no thanks! But also, I did that when I was being severely underpaid, so like, pay me enough and I'd give it a go?
- @DiegoATLAW Might be a problem (like in a police interog) if the bad data is used against you. But in many contexts, who cares? I don't want birthday ads 365/yr, but so what? I'd rather confuse the algo/bad actors! Still, misinfo as a def hasn't really caught on yet, for whatever reason.
- @drkyliesmith Relatedly, I'm very curious what you find in terms of gender, esp re remnants of Victorian domesticity/home/motherhood (women) or work/productivity/fatherhood (men), choice to release or have work in institution (and what kind?)--and how racialization intersects.
- @drkyliesmith Yes, that fits what I’ve noticed too. I think class and gender fit into this shift too in diff ways. Like I think gendered approach shifts more later too, like-but-diff than race. Class impact not quite as changed over time maybe?
- @drkyliesmith That makes sense now that you say it. Do you know if anyone has compiled basic data somewhere on numbers institutionalized in the US (by state) over the course of the 20th C? Or are you having to figure this out from state and institutional archives for your locations?
- @DiegoATLAW There are some browser plugins that try this sort of thing, like: Noiszy - https://t.co/QNSB3UldaO AdNauseum - https://t.co/gsTv9OQbLe It seems like a variation of the interrogation resistance technique of talking--a lot--including lots of nonsense and false info.