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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
I have an idea: why don't you aggregate and publish personal information on the Internet that you find either from a public source and/or in public view? Do it a lot. To a lot of people. Eventually,you will hit the jackpot, and someone will sue you for defamation [iwhich includes invasion of privacy[/i]. Then we will find out if such practice violates any law. Good luck.

Or worse, maybe from the information/photograph provided, a nutcase will identify someone who cut in front of them in traffic for example, deduce from the photo where the person parks/works/lives/hangs out and perhaps starts stalking them or harms them. Not that much of stretch. I agree with a PP that at some point everyone has some deviations from perfection since we are all human. Or perhaps you don't even know what it is you've done. Perhaps you are walking down the street with your skirt stuck up at the back and your panties are showing. You're in public but do you really want someone to post a picture of that on DCUM? Or a picture of your house?

Once you start identifying private people or their cars online, it becomes a slippery slope. You never know when it will happen to you...[/quote]

Well, now you're talking about something else.

Yes, there is danger in having your embarrassing moments, your misdeeds, or just your regular routine photographed and posted online. There are stalking dangers, as well as mistaken identity embarrassment. There is also straight up earned shame. It sucks sometimes to live in the instant age of camera phones and social media, because it is possible that all the dangers and not-really-dangers are magnified in a way they wouldn't have been 20 years ago.

However, you are wrong when you call this a "slippery slope". It isn't. It is an entirely different thing than the case the poster you are quoting brings up. That poster thinks, incorrectly, that there is something illegal about posting such information on the internet. They throw around defamation and privacy without having any idea of the law. That is fundamentally different than your argument, which is more of an ethical one. Just because it is legal to post a lawbreaker's license, should we? Frankly, that is a far more interesting question and I might agree with you if your position rested on the idea that calling someone out doesn't advance the public good or change someone's behavior; it's just a mean reaction to a perceived slight..
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