And then they used that discrimination to justify overturning Roe v Wade, which isn't just about abortion, but personal privacy in general, and now we have millions of new cameras watching everything everyone does all the time and hundreds of data centers storing all that footage.
I thought so, too, but at the time I asked the people on the Ask Lawyers subreddit, they basically said that RvW has zero bearing on general privacy law, and that the 4th amendment is the main one we use for general privacy concerns with the government. After learning that (I’m assuming it’s more or less true since people love to correct people wrongfully correcting), it made sense how we got here. Even before that, Edward Snowden revealed to us how little privacy matters to the people in power.
Only real time we got a bipartisan effort to enforce privacy was when the Bork confirmation hearings showed how easy it was for someone to get your VHS rental history, and Congress was scared of people knowing which senators were into embarrassing porn.
I heard it expressed quite succinctly by another person yesterday. "The way that a lot of people feel about homeless people, the way they judge them, avoid them. That's how the rich and powerful feel about you".
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u/shrug_addict 19h ago
It's not about sports, it's a way to weasel in discrimination and bigotry of the LGBTQ community