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This is just the standard go-to excuse now for public officials refusing to comment on a controversial or embarrassing decision. They use it even if the subjec
by caf 7y ago
This is just the standard go-to excuse now for public officials refusing to comment on a controversial or embarrassing decision.
They use it even if the subject whose privacy rights they are supposedly and suddenly so interested in protecting explicitly waives it.
Every time you see that comment, just read it as "I am not prepared to offer a defence of our actions".
- paxys 7y agoVery similar to bullshit we hear at companies as well. "We can't talk about why we fired XYZ because we value his privacy." Meanwhile XYZ is himself going around telling everyone who will listen about how he was screwed over.
- caf 7y agoOh, you're absolutely right, I shouldn't have limited that to officialdom - it's definitely used at least as much if not more so by corporate PR. Exactly the same reading applies.