

Right. Then I’ll just open up your banking history here on lemmy…
Oh wait.
And words have meaning. You can’t just point to their etymology and claim they can be used to refer to everything you consider slightly related.
The fact is, the word panopticon has very specific meaning, and specifically refers to prisons. And you didn’t even get it right. The original concept doesn’t involve constant surveillance, but the possibility of constant surveillance.
Otherwise every single room with someone wearing sunglasses in it, would be one, because you can’t tell whether that person might be looking at you at any given moment.
Fair.
It does make for a much more compelling allegory for society, as much like prison, it’s really hard to “exit” society.
While opting out of moderated social media is not difficult at all.