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\textit{Biondi} says that in some studies has been enlightened that the birth of capitalism brought with itself the concept of the body seen as a \textbf{tool of performance}, and this also concurred in the crusade against onanism, since the possibility of behaviors that in some way could intact the abilities of the body to perform were seen much more in a negative way.\\
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Capitalism also in some way brings the idea that private vice is transformed in \textbf{public good} or virtue through commerce. And in the digital age we may withdraw the conclusion that opposing to the free circulation of information can be destructive for the good of the society and stop this creation of public virtue, or, written in another way, public security. This ultimately brings us to the commodification of everything, even private and social aspects of our lives.\\
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This last point of view seems to be based on a too huge leap. Personally, looking at our society I don't think that these conclusions are so unreasonable, but for sure they need another type of discussion, and they also touch other big and debated ethical issues, that can't be discussed here. As said before these last conclusions are not essentials to the following of the discussion, probably even \textit{Biondi} knows that these conclusions are too stretched, but she tried to sketch some possible discussion points for further analysis and discussions.\\
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-What I think is important to keep from this section is the comparison between two at first sight completely different scenarios, and the problem that in this kind of surveillance culture we are giving up some rights over our privacy like that could affect our relationships as highlighted by \textit{Rachels} \cite{privacyimportant}, in a system that made us accept that everything, even our rights become a good that we can trade in order to gain some superior objective, and that we need to enact surveillance with each other for our own good. In the next section I'll try to go further and try to sketch some other implications and issues of this type of surveillance culture.
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+What I think is important to keep from this section is the problem that in this kind of surveillance culture we are giving up some rights over our privacy, and the comparison with the crusade against onanism particularly highlights that in a so configured society we are dangerously tempted to accept everything, even that our rights become a good that we can trade in order to pursue some superior objective, and that we need to enact surveillance one with each other for our own good.\\
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+In the next section I'll try to go further and try to sketch some other implications and issues of this type of surveillance culture.
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