The New Puritans: Nudity, Big Tech and the Death of Nuance
The idea that the naked body is inherently sexual, and therefore shameful, is a specifically puritan inheritance, and one that's particularly American.
The idea that the naked body is inherently sexual, and therefore shameful, is a specifically puritan inheritance, and one that's particularly American.
When a corporation can unilaterally seize, reset, and threaten your digital presence because a line of code threw a false positive, the user is not the violator. The user is the one being violated.
The argument is this: the moment a society decides that the state is responsible for supervising what children do online, the state inherits the infrastructure to supervise what everyone does online.
Under broad, catch-all frameworks, legal work about the human condition is treated as if it were dangerous, despite posing no illegal risk whatsoever.
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