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Right. If it's not "think of the children", it's "you have nothing to worry about if you're not doing anything wrong".
by starkd 4y ago
Right. If it's not "think of the children", it's "you have nothing to worry about if you're not doing anything wrong".
- jaywalk 4y agoAnd the undeniable fact is that nearly everyone is doing something wrong (with highly varying degrees of wrongness, of course) every single day.
- justin_oaks 4y agoOr can appear to be wrong. This is really the problem of the "nothing to hide" arguments. It isn't that you have anything to hide so much as people can use the information against you by interpreting it wrong, removing necessary context, bringing up old information that is no longer relevant today (e.g. youthful indiscretions), etc.
- californical 4y agoLike imagine you and a college friend have a running joke where you do something slightly offensive to each other, and the other person acts all surprised. To you both, that’s just a funny running joke, but it could be taken out of context and shared with the world to make you look like a creep. If someone has a record of that, they can cut out the part right afterwards where you laugh and hug. Will it be used against you? Probably not. But what a powerful weapon for someone to have hanging over your head.
- concordDance 4y agoOr things that weren't considered wrong become wrong 20 years later.
- snarf21 4y agoExactly. And my first response is to ask that person to hand be their unlocked phone. I promise to keep anything I learn secret. They care about their privacy, no one elses.