@JoeHoffman That’s an interesting question. Surveillance regimes will have been different at different time periods and imagine that what is worth surveillance will also be different, depending. For me, though, the small town gossip is fundamentally different from what Metres is talking about—if I’ve understood what you’re talking about correctly. And the difference has largely to do with scope, institutionalization, and accountability. The small town gossip could be held accountable in ways Facebook, for example, cannot. Or do you mean something different?