Joho the Blog » analogies http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger Let's just see what happens Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:48:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Argument by analogy http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/10/30/argument-by-analogy/ http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/10/30/argument-by-analogy/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:06:08 +0000 davidw http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=8779 A judge has ruled that email is not protected under the Fourth Amendment. This sounds wrong to me (although I am very much not a lawyer), but what I really enjoy are the many many arguments by analogy as slashdotters try to figure out what email is like, so we can see what privacy expectations to port over from the familiar world of telephones, Fedex trucks, and glass-bottom boats.

I’m not saying there’s a better way to figure this out. I just enjoy watching us flounder our way through ethical dilemmas.

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