Total exposure by everyone would neutralize privacy-based discrimination, but only after a costly transition.

Evidence

At the point where critical mass is reached of everybody exposing enough private information, it becomes too honest for anybody to pay attention to it all and try to discriminate on it. At the point where everybody really is out there with whatever their little weird thing is, that’s the point at which you stop, when you say, “Oh, you know what, a fact with humanity, is that all of us have some weird freaky thing we fantasize about, or some weird freaky thing that we’re afraid of, or some weird freaky thing that, I don’t know, that’s what’s normal!” There’s no such thing as a weird freaky thing. But until that critical mass happens, it’s an act of courage to put that picture up on your Facebook … and it’s an act of courage that, you know, very much comes with some tradeoffs. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 612

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth investigating whether any community has actually approached this ‘critical mass’ threshold of normalized disclosure, and what actually happened.