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Re:Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Au... by parker_mountain on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:47PM (#35921354)
>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.

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Re:Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Au... by cm2187 on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:56PM (#35921478)
Or humour. Hard to make any joke in private that won't offend (or pretend to be offended) someone on the internet.
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Re:Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Au... by derekp7 on Friday May 12, 2023 @06:14PM (#35923174)
That'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?

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Re:Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Au... by dsr_ on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:21PM (#35921826)
"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 for context.

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Re:Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Au... by lr1970 on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:12PM (#35921699)
> 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".

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Re:Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Au... by heavyset_go on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:06PM (#35921612)
Foucault is rolling in his grave.
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Re:Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Au... by deafpolygon on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:00PM (#35921533)
> 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).

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