As if having your privacy on the internet taken away is not enough, imagine the knowledge of everything you do there available to such guy to go behind you and mess your things. And while such situation might be intolerable everywhere because of people who lack moral values or the integrity to hold themselves from seeking a potential benefit resulting from allying themselves with this guy, it is even much worse here because the alliance by itself, as a way for group identity, is extremely overpowering. One very special thing I would like to cite in support of this is what those Impractical Jokers did in one of the episodes of the show and the commendable analysis and comments they did there. The show was about pretending to run away from something and seeking the help of a person to support you with that by lying and/or denying your presence to another person who comes a little later looking for you. A support there was given against various people including a little girl and a nun. The guys themselves commented saying it is amazing how you can so easily create an alliance (A level of introspection at the group level hardly seen elsewhere here). I actually think that my use of the word "alliance" today when talking about identity establishment and grouping was leaned from that.
Anyway, back to the issue that pulled this whole connection, I don't use the phrase "the spirit of the law" much but I think that, even with the absence of any other supporting argument, having no right for privacy over the Internet and leaving a person susceptible like this with no other alternative to protect himself there looks far from the spirit of the Fourth Amendment.
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