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textualdevianceWhat a horrid little prick.
For the record, I don't feel all that bad about the guys who were cheating, but everyone else? Deserves privacy.
I hope someone sues him, because this IS a textbook case of invasion of privacy:
1. Everyone he outed was a private figure.
2. The activities the people in question participate in/fantasize about are LEGAL (in most locales), but still cause undue negative opinions in the community. Private sexual practice is not a protected category, so these people can actually lose their jobs.
3. The personal information was transmitted via private messaging, not posted in a publicly-accessible place. The responders had a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their communications.
This information is in no way in the public interest, as it would be for, say, a Family Values politician caught trolling online for twinks.
I'm not surprised the little fuckhead seems to think he's an objectivist. He's a classic model of the lame Beavises attracted to that philosophy (and its political cousin, libertarianism)--pathetic loser lashing out at people because he thinks that makes him powerful. He disdains rules and regard for others because he assumes that giving a shit about others' pain makes him weak.
Truly strong people don't feel the need to attack the weak, nor do they feel the need to ignore others' suffering. It is only those who are afraid, and who fear losing power (or money--same thing in this culture) who think they have to treat other people like shit to avoid becoming a victim themselves.
And I have no doubt that this guy, should he get sued, will bitch and whine about it the whole way, claiming he has some sort of "right" to be a dick, and that privacy laws are just "the gestapo" or whatever faux fascist symbolism he wants to point at. Pull the curtain, and all these guys always show themselves for the scared little boys they really are. The motivation for bullying--which is what this is--is the same for 4th graders as it is for presidents.
For the record, I don't feel all that bad about the guys who were cheating, but everyone else? Deserves privacy.
I hope someone sues him, because this IS a textbook case of invasion of privacy:
1. Everyone he outed was a private figure.
2. The activities the people in question participate in/fantasize about are LEGAL (in most locales), but still cause undue negative opinions in the community. Private sexual practice is not a protected category, so these people can actually lose their jobs.
3. The personal information was transmitted via private messaging, not posted in a publicly-accessible place. The responders had a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their communications.
This information is in no way in the public interest, as it would be for, say, a Family Values politician caught trolling online for twinks.
I'm not surprised the little fuckhead seems to think he's an objectivist. He's a classic model of the lame Beavises attracted to that philosophy (and its political cousin, libertarianism)--pathetic loser lashing out at people because he thinks that makes him powerful. He disdains rules and regard for others because he assumes that giving a shit about others' pain makes him weak.
Truly strong people don't feel the need to attack the weak, nor do they feel the need to ignore others' suffering. It is only those who are afraid, and who fear losing power (or money--same thing in this culture) who think they have to treat other people like shit to avoid becoming a victim themselves.
And I have no doubt that this guy, should he get sued, will bitch and whine about it the whole way, claiming he has some sort of "right" to be a dick, and that privacy laws are just "the gestapo" or whatever faux fascist symbolism he wants to point at. Pull the curtain, and all these guys always show themselves for the scared little boys they really are. The motivation for bullying--which is what this is--is the same for 4th graders as it is for presidents.
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There is nothing predatory about consensual sexual contact (or fantasies about it.)
There's a big difference between hunting down and forcing oneself on an unwilling or unable to consent person and seeking out contact with a willing, consenting person.
As I say, I don't feel quite so bad about the guys who were caught cheating, but there were plenty of them who weren't--who were single or had open relationships--who had every right to expect that responding to a personal ad via a private message would be a secure way to contact a willing partner.
I personally don't get the hooking up with strangers thing--sex without at least knowing someone is boring and a little pathetic, if you ask me--but people do have a right to do it, and a right to not lose their jobs for doing so.
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