>If you're not bothered reading about the topic being posted, why are you weighing in on it? This appears to be an issue for what seems like well more than hal

>If you're not bothered reading about the topic being posted, why are you weighing in on it? This appears to be an issue for what seems like well more than half of all HN comments. It's common on reddit, too, but seems more common here, for some reason. So many people just respond to the HN title and don't click the link. >People who post their dirty laundry on an app in a time when we know everything online is recorded, tracked, sold off to others, hacked and stolen or archived in a government database and then have the gall to complain about that dirty laundry getting out should have their internet access removed from them. Parents who let their children put themselves in this situation should be monitored by CPS. This is completely absurd. People expect public social media information to be public and anonymous secret-sharing app information to be anonymous and private. And the information does seem to have been treated as private by the company, with the issue being this unintentionally exposed database. There was no agreement they signed saying their secrets weren't actually secret. They were under the impression this information wasn't public. The company is 100% at fault and users are 0% at fault. Parents also shouldn't be responsible for every single thing their children say to their friends and classmates. You think parents should be monitored by CPS if they don't tyrannically ensure their children aren't using any sort of messaging apps? That's insane. Education around potential security issues with services is important, but the fault here is still entirely on MediaLab. They don't "have the gall" to complain; it's people like you who have the gall to blame customers for entrusting private information to an application designed for private information. Blaming victims and parents and saying they should be blocked from using the internet, or having kids, is one of the worst takes I've ever heard. And there are plenty of things that are (almost certainly) not in fact recorded, tracked, sold, hacked, or archived by governments. If you just want to give up on anything on the internet possibly being usable or trustworthy whatsoever, why are you still using it? You should be removing your own access to it.