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All the money in the world can't buy your pride / dignity back, especially if some "embarrassing" evidence get out there. It's something in the way people woul

All the money in the world can't buy your pride / dignity back, especially if some "embarrassing" evidence get out there. It's something in the way people would look at you, talk about you, etc ... If you combine that with the Streisand effect, there's no way a public figure can take this kind of hit and walk away unphased. It's very much human nature, and that's why Jeff's move is bold.

ocschwar 8y ago
Standing up to that fucker does, in fact, buy you your pride and dignity back. The only thing missing here is Bezos offering to up the ante with a newer dickpic.
- CamperBob2 8y ago
  A good reply might have been, "Sorry, Mr. Pecker, but I'm not interested in working with you on this. But I'd suggest you hold off for a couple of weeks before releasing those photos. Playgirl has an exclusive on them in their next issue, and their lawyers are probably better than yours."
- sundvor 8y ago
  Agreed. Bezos gained more respect (in my eyes, and I'm delighted to see a lot of others too!) by the way he's handling this than anything that could be lost by the "reveals". (My own carefactor is zero). In fact offering the full text of the extortion attempt shows true courage, and at the same time claims back all the power the items might have had. It just makes me despise these dickheads even more and totally root (the Australian version) for Bezos - go get them!! I'm super interested in what happens next.
buboard 8y ago
> All the money in the world can't buy your pride / dignity back, especially if some "embarrassing" evidence get out there. AFAIK we are talking about a naked pic. If that was really so dangerous, people would never take naked selfies in the first place. I think it's hyperbole, even by american's puritan standards
_jal 8y ago
I suppose it is heavily dependent on one's personality and what one has actually been caught on camera doing. But assuming your average sexytime pics, if some of me were made public, I'd care very little about it. If someone started looking at me funny over it, I'd laugh at them; if my boss or someone else with power were to be a prudish twit, changing jobs would be a hassle, but that's the worst I could imagine, and, eh, I'm lucky that doing so isn't as huge a deal as it is for some. I do of course realize that things can be very different for people in different positions, and of course sextortion of minors is a very different thing. But for someone reasonably secure both financially and emotionally, who cares? Only the sort of people I don't willingly spend time around anyway. I don't know Bezos, but he's certainly OK financially, and this reaction seems to demonstrate emotional competence, too.
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ocschwar 8y ago

Standing up to that fucker does, in fact, buy you your pride and dignity back. The only thing missing here is Bezos offering to up the ante with a newer dickpic.

CamperBob2 8y ago
A good reply might have been, "Sorry, Mr. Pecker, but I'm not interested in working with you on this. But I'd suggest you hold off for a couple of weeks before releasing those photos. Playgirl has an exclusive on them in their next issue, and their lawyers are probably better than yours."
sundvor 8y ago
Agreed. Bezos gained more respect (in my eyes, and I'm delighted to see a lot of others too!) by the way he's handling this than anything that could be lost by the "reveals". (My own carefactor is zero). In fact offering the full text of the extortion attempt shows true courage, and at the same time claims back all the power the items might have had. It just makes me despise these dickheads even more and totally root (the Australian version) for Bezos - go get them!! I'm super interested in what happens next.

buboard 8y ago

> All the money in the world can't buy your pride / dignity back, especially if some "embarrassing" evidence get out there. AFAIK we are talking about a naked pic. If that was really so dangerous, people would never take naked selfies in the first place. I think it's hyperbole, even by american's puritan standards

_jal 8y ago

I suppose it is heavily dependent on one's personality and what one has actually been caught on camera doing. But assuming your average sexytime pics, if some of me were made public, I'd care very little about it. If someone started looking at me funny over it, I'd laugh at them; if my boss or someone else with power were to be a prudish twit, changing jobs would be a hassle, but that's the worst I could imagine, and, eh, I'm lucky that doing so isn't as huge a deal as it is for some. I do of course realize that things can be very different for people in different positions, and of course sextortion of minors is a very different thing. But for someone reasonably secure both financially and emotionally, who cares? Only the sort of people I don't willingly spend time around anyway. I don't know Bezos, but he's certainly OK financially, and this reaction seems to demonstrate emotional competence, too.

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