'The Internet is for Porn' – Blackmail in 2033

Re:'The Internet is for Porn' – Blackmail in 2033 by halts on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @08:01AM (#4385506)

I think Facebook and other such sharing services are going to make candidates' lives much more visible...for the presidency, everything is open to fair game and things such as personal privacy mean less...because this person is vying to be the most powerful person in the world.

It's common for medical and financial records to be released to the public...so how can a candidate justify not releasing FB history? we might be so used to/numb to social-sharing that it'll seem strange NOT to have it open (i.e. "what do you have to hide?")

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Re:'The Internet is for Porn' – Blackmail in 2033 by activepeanut on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @08:49AM (#4385664)

Can you imagine the pendulum swinging the other way 20 years from now?

<picture a presidential debate> "Mr Candidate, we found no inappropriate behavior in your Facebook history, nor porn in your browser history, how do you defend yourself from accusations of not being a man-of-the-people?"

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Re:'The Internet is for Porn' – Blackmail in 2033 by slurgfest on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @11:03AM (#4386272)

That wouldn't be the charge, the charge would be 'what are you hiding?'

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