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>Or, radical new idea here, how about conduct yourself in a reasonable way where if everyone in the world read your text messages you wouldn't be fired or go to
by parker_mountain 3y ago
>Or, radical new idea here, how about conduct yourself in a reasonable way where if everyone in the world read your text messages you wouldn't be fired or go to jail?
This is ridiculous. There are so many things you can do that are ethical and illegal. Or ethical and legal and would still piss a lot of people off. Or, how about just wanting to rant off the record with friends?
This idea the default should be "act like you're being watched" is harmful, both to the individual and to society.
- cm2187 3y agoOr humour. Hard to make any joke in private that won't offend (or pretend to be offended) someone on the internet.
- derekp7 3y agoThat's what I call "synthetically offended". It is where there is no offense intended, and none actually received, but the potentially offended party (or more likely a third party) can string together something to make it look like an offense. Often as a "gotcha" to the "offender". So next time someone takes offense at something, ask them are they really offended, or synthetically offended?
- deafpolygon 3y ago> This idea the default should be "act like you're being watched" is harmful, both to the individual and to society. Yet, that is oftentimes the reality. You _are_ being watched (online).
- heavyset_go 3y agoFoucault is rolling in his grave.
- lr1970 3y ago> This idea the default should be "act like you're being watched" is harmful, both to the individual and to society. As George Orwell said in his 1984 "Big Brother is watching you".
- dsr_ 3y ago"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him" see https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu for context.