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I guarantee you when the first millennial takes a real shot at becoming president, someone at FB and other data companies will leak all of their private message
by seibelj 8y ago
I guarantee you when the first millennial takes a real shot at becoming president, someone at FB and other data companies will leak all of their private messages since they were teenagers. So much of our data is out there and it’s never going away.
- sharkweek 8y agoMy hope is that by that point we have all grown enough as a society to be able to look past the little mistakes we all make as humans. I do worry that FB/google etc could use that type of stuff as blackmail to get the policies they want enacted though.
- lkrubner 8y agoKompromat has been a normal part of the Russian political culture going back to negative rumors against Kerensky in 1917, and yet Russian society has not adapted a lenient attitude about it. Rather, the opposite happens, the public develops the attitude that everyone is corrupt and the right way to fight this is to make a severe example of anyone who gets caught.
- mattmaroon 8y agoWe elected the "grab 'em by the pussy" guy. We're clearly not Russia.
- danans 8y agoThat guy's voters had a much lower standard for decency for him than they had for other candidates. Some even rationalized that with religious explanations. The question is whether the standards for personal conduct have been permanently lowered for future candidates or whether that was a one time thing.
- ams6110 8y agoI think that validates sharkweek's theory, above. We have all said things, made crude and even cruel jokes, that we'd be embarrassed about if they became public. But I think we are starting to understand that it's pretty common and with cameras everywhere and social media it's much more likely that you'll be "outed" for something you said or did or would rather keep private. I don't know if a society that doesn't shame people for that sort of stuff will be better. Shame is a powerful way that societies regulate undesired behavior. But I do think it's happening.
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- ionised 8y ago> My hope is that by that point we have all grown enough as a society to be able to look past the little mistakes we all make as humans. I doubt that will ever be the case.
- moate 8y agoIt will be. We always move the goalposts of what "polite society" should look like. Trump got elected despite having his past (or because of?). People with visible tattoos are CEOs. Elon smoked weed on camera. You think that shit would have flown in the 1940s?
- ams6110 8y agoPoliticians have pretty much always been that way. The press ignored it/didn't report it back then. JFK and LBJ were flagrant womanizers.
- moate 8y agoExactly my point. OP was saying he doesn't think we'll be able to get past the mistakes someone made in the past. Culturally in the US, we do it all the time.
- lostgame 8y ago>> My hope is that by that point we have all grown enough as a society to be able to look past the little mistakes we all make as humans. Wow, really? Where on Earth do you find this kind of hope? I want some!
- yumraj 8y agoThat's what I always say, if there had been FB, or even just Internet, Kavanaugh would never have made it to SC.
- Fordec 8y agoAnd with that, the first millennial detonates a few high altitude EMPs just to do society a favour in the long term
- VBprogrammer 8y agoWhen you think about things like that then it makes you reconsider whether the GDPR is right and necessary.
- mpweiher 8y agoWhy "reconsider"?
- VBprogrammer 8y agoFrankly as a developer it's a pain in the arse. But probably a necessary one.
- M2Ys4U 8y agoOn the other hand it allows us as developers to push back on PMs and other colleagues that are tempted to slide down the slippery slope of data collection.
- pjc50 8y ago"But her emails!"
- gammateam 8y agoAnd nobody will care They’ll be “so relatable” at that point People might actually listen to a candidates’ policies
- checkyoursudo 8y agoAccording to what my wife occasionally shows me, my dad, a man in his 70s, and my cousins, men and women in their 40s and 50s, have posted as questionable of stuff and theoretically-damaging-to-presidential-aspirations on Facebook as I can ever imagine any millennial could possibly post. I don't think millennials are unique in this regard.
- tracker1 8y agoIt's already started... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal