We The Peepers
October, 2001
What would Benjamin Franklin think of the Internet? How would the founding fathers react to Ken Starr or the Drudge Report? Would Alexander Hamilton challenge a telemarketer to a duel? What do we make of a world where Supreme Court nominees scoff at the right to privacy; where business leaders buy and sell information collected in milliseconds; where companies market videotapes claiming to show lovers caught on security tapes; where gossip has become a national industry?Robert Ellis Smith has be...
