this is a thing I've been thinking about that I struggle to put into words but I really feel like the internet has created a blurring of the line between "public" and "private" that our language hasn't really caught up with
there's obviously a difference between say, putting a poster up on a public noticeboard, airing something on the radio, and making posts on a internet blog with a niche audience that you have to actively follow to see the content of, but all of those fall under the word "public"
and then you have moral panics about people "posting hard kink in public" and "in public" just means, on their internet blog that you had to seek out and follow to receive a feed of content from. which doesn't feel like the same kind of "public" that people meant before the internet
