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Oh my bad, I'm realizing some folks don't have the context I do and also maybe kink is a better descriptor?

This isn't the kind of thing you can plug into a search engine, you have to actually have been on the roof during that liminal period between Cablegate and Edward Snowden dropping his dox...

Let me break it down for you:

While the "Panopticon" was originally described by utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the late 1700s[0], it was later repopularized when discussed by Michel Foucault's 1975 book "Discipline and Punish"[1]:

>In the mid-1970s, the panopticon was brought to the wider attention by the French psychoanalyst Jacques-Alain Miller and the French philosopher Michel Foucault.[30] In 1975, Foucault used the panopticon as metaphor for the modern disciplinary society in Discipline and Punish. He argued that the disciplinary society had emerged in the 18th century and that discipline are techniques for assuring the ordering of human complexities, with the ultimate aim of docility and utility in the system.[31] Foucault first came across the panopticon architecture when he studied the origins of clinical medicine and hospital architecture in the second half of the 18th century. He argued that discipline had replaced the pre-modern society of kings, and that the panopticon should not be understood as a building, but as a mechanism of power and a diagram of political technology.

Foucault would go on to die of AIDS, since when he wasn't writing philosophy he was having a whole lot of unprotected sex... apparently in addition to disliking capitalism, he also disliked condoms.

On my end, I found this all out when one of their staffers kept trying to get me drunk on the roof of their then new office at 815 Eddy. Apparently it was offensive to the guy I said that as much as I love to hang out on roofs being told I look like Abbie Hoffman, I wish just once it would be a woman doing that since I'd finished all my experiments during pride and then tried to swing the convo back to censorship circumvention, my at the time PhD thesis topic.

(I've since dropped out of my PhD, and civil society in general -- I ended up having a drink thrown in my face for the above, then spending the rest of the evening looking at the linux project one of their less shitty staffers had done, and the guy who was an asshole left the org around when the Media Lab decided to stop taking money from Jeffrey Epstein.)

Anyways, sorry for the wall of text, but hope the above helps you understand -- or at least... paints a picture.

PS: Don't please don't use Google around me :-)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon#Conceptual_history

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish