Something interesting to me and that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is how people exempt corporations and larger and/or similar entities from proscriptions that they happily apply and mis-apply (IMO) to individuals.
For instance, among most falling-in-line type liberals, the vaunted practice of street photography is these days seen as borderline harassment, if not outright harassment, no matter its intent.
However, even most liberal types will either do nothing about pervasive CCTV monitoring in cities, or even outright support it if it assists in their gentrification of a neighborhood or removal of undesirables and the like.
The two are not different. Arguably, the CCTV tracking is a far worse infraction of basic rights.
My thoughts on this aren’t fully-formed, and it is a collective action problem I realize, but I am more interested in the psychological oddness around being tacitly ok with a far-worse infringement of rights that one feels one can’t do anything about. Meanwhile, surveillance by corporations and the government even after Snowden is not-much-discussed outside small corners of the internet.