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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by reitzensteinm on Thursday February 07, 2019 @07:02PM (#19109948)
They are threatening to post photos of him sexting. Calling that "just details" is a stunning lack of empathy.

Even if you'd personally be unperturbed by a similar situation, the vast majority of humans would find it humiliating and invasive in the extreme.

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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by hypochondria on Thursday February 07, 2019 @07:13PM (#19110017)
> They are threatening to post photos of him sexting.

Is a photo published in a disreputable magazine significantly worse than the information already out so far which already got people thinking about him sexting anyway combined with losing custody of ~70 billion dollars in the coming divorce? I'm not so sure. Their privacy was already thoroughly invaded before this latest development.

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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by reitzensteinm on Thursday February 07, 2019 @07:55PM (#19110277)
It doesn't matter if it's worse. Going through a public divorce doesn't make one stop caring about an invasion of sexual privacy. It doesn't work like that.
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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by markbnj on Friday February 08, 2019 @02:21AM (#19112181)
> Is a photo published in a disreputable magazine significantly worse than the information already out so far which already got people thinking about him sexting anyway

Yes, unequivocally. I suspect any PR person would agree. You can doubt information published by a disreputable source, but most people believe the images they see, even in this deep faked era.

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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by scotty79 on Friday February 08, 2019 @04:08AM (#19112584)
I think Jeff Bezos is one the people that wouldn't take a picture with their PHONE if they thought the photo should never ever be leaked to public.

Any photo you take with a connected device can be eventually obtained and published. I hope all the folks here are aware about that.

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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by buboard on Thursday February 07, 2019 @08:56PM (#19110715)
i don't know if "in the extreme". certainly not extreme enough to be extorted over. There is vastly worse things to be ashamed about, most people understand that other people are not flawless, esp. when it doesn't affect them.
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