Posts like these fundamentally value entertainment over privacy but position themselves as forms of activism or justice. To those participating and celebrating this kind of behavior: “Your addiction to surveillance and attention is betraying the fact that, although you’re the exact demographic to call yourselves girls’ girls, your only... allegiance is to your own entertainment.”show more

Orwell feared that there would be cameras on us, but he should have feared that people want to have cameras around

like imagine how humiliated the wife is right now… and for what?

We literally became Big Brother as soon as we could. This form of societal shaming just obliterates folks in its blast path even when they're innocent.

I cannot overstate how much everyone needs to read "Surveillance and Capture" by Phil Agre. He predicted this in 1995.

@prettycritical youre about to go twitter viral

i love @prettycritical and this is the correct take !!!!!

@brockmcgillis33 I often get friends or colleagues from outside the EU finding our privacy laws strange or too much but I'm honestly so happy about them, because just posting someone else's face online without their consent imo is shitty in any situation

I’m so grateful that I didn’t learn of my (now ex) husband’s infidelity via the internet. That we had a chance to work through it privately and that I was able to control who knew and when. If this had been my ex, I would have been mortified, for me AND my kids, if it were public

This is a great take and she’s right

See also: people who film and beat up paedophiles on the internet as some moral crusade. Handing their defence all the evidence they need to get said paedophile back on the streets. If you really cared you would’ve sent it to the police and not put it online for attention.