What we want to see is an end to villainy (and "hatchet jobs") but with nothing lost: privacy, decency and freedom of speech cherished together, each protected without damaging the other.
The bill's author, Senator Lois Kolkhorst, a Republican from Brenham, said that it was designed to "find the balance of privacy, decency, respect, and dignity, to protect women, children, and all people".
There are better ways to get to the truth while respecting privacy and decency.
The concepts of privacy and decency are so slippery (and class-bound) that they are not really the stuff of effective (or desirable) legislation when it comes to the press.
It is determined by the subjection of bodies to sex-differential boundaries of privacy and decency boundaries which protect both the object and subject of sensory access and which provide the underlying rationale for public concealment (322-3).
Perhaps they don't understand the concept of simple privacy and decency.
We did the digital divide in about four minutes; four minutes on web 2.0; four minutes on mobile; four minutes on censorship, taste, decency, privacy.
It was the family secret, this melancholy and its attendant grief, and in the tradition of lower-middle-class, C of E, work-ethic-oriented respectability, decency, privacy, self-control and dignity, Joan kept it to herself.
But it is not sufficient to simply say, with Bacharach and many others who have come of age with the internet, that privacy is "the decency … to leave other's lives alone," and demand that the world and all its powers live up to that ideal.
Last week's Benefits Street (Channel 4) focused on the sense of community enjoyed by the residents of Kingston Road, Stockton-on-Tees, while portraying members of the popular press as the enemies of privacy, accuracy and decency, wholly without the programme-makers' knack for even-handedness.
The store is thoughtfully curated, and we hold app developers to Apple's own high standards of security, privacy, usefulness and decency, among others.
