>It is not like overhearing a conversation in the park, it like is hiding in the bushes with a tape recorder.
It's not like that because people have a reasonable expectation that what they say in a conversation will only be heard by those in that conversation. Tweeting is the real life equivalent of standing on the table and shouting something with a bullhorn. There's no expectation of privacy there.
>Total observation is socially and politically horrifying
It's not "total observation". It's observation of things they explicitly choice to make public.
Once again, there are degrees. When addressing an open audience there is an expectation to be heard by other human beings in a social context; but neither is this an invitation to have one's thoughts algorithmically scraped and profiled and flagged for assessment by a bureaucrat somewhere. Please try to consider this in relation to the goals of natural interpersonal communication, and not under the assumption that everything legal is proper.
It's not like that because people have a reasonable expectation that what they say in a conversation will only be heard by those in that conversation. Tweeting is the real life equivalent of standing on the table and shouting something with a bullhorn. There's no expectation of privacy there.
>Total observation is socially and politically horrifying
It's not "total observation". It's observation of things they explicitly choice to make public.