Posting private info has tragic results sometimes

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If you wonder why JPP has strongly-enforced rules against the posting of people's private info, consider this:


In what was a horrible random matchup, Tyler Clementi and Dharum Ravi were assigned the same dorm room at Rutgers. The two freshmen could not have been more poorly matched. Clementi was gay and Ravi was not comfortable with a gay roommate.


After Clementi asked for their shared room one evening to meet a male friend, known through court documents only as M.B., Ravi set up a webcam to secretly film the encounter. He watched from a friend’s room.


And then he tweeted about what he saw. He tried to set up a second filming when Clementi asked for the room again, but by then, Clementi had become aware of the first video-streaming and pulled the plug on Ravi’s computer. Ravi had been inviting people to watch his roommate and M.B.


If there is a lesson to be learned it is that the electronic gadgets that people enjoy are not toys for casual use. Anyone can easily video, text or email.


But there are consequences to all actions. Invasion of privacy is not a prank. Targeting someone because of his sexual orientation is not fair sport; it’s a hate crime. And for all the ease there is in texting and emailing, there is an electronic trail that cannot be deleted.


It was not a childish prank. It was not an accident. It was a despicable invasion of privacy, one motivated by Clementi’s sexual orientation. To Ravi, his roommate’s private life was potential entertainment. There will no doubt be a legal appeal. We are confident justice will prevail.




http://www.northjersey.com/news/opinions/143030915_Justice_for_Clementi.html
 
ironic, given \\\\//// has posted my private and personal information on this board and been banned for it. i wonder why he obsessively creates so many threads about this topic.....guilt?
 
\\(())// said:
If you wonder why JPP has strongly-enforced rules against the posting of people's private info, consider this:


In what was a horrible random matchup, Tyler Clementi and Dharum Ravi were assigned the same dorm room at Rutgers. The two freshmen could not have been more poorly matched. Clementi was gay and Ravi was not comfortable with a gay roommate.


After Clementi asked for their shared room one evening to meet a male friend, known through court documents only as M.B., Ravi set up a webcam to secretly film the encounter. He watched from a friend’s room.


And then he tweeted about what he saw. He tried to set up a second filming when Clementi asked for the room again, but by then, Clementi had become aware of the first video-streaming and pulled the plug on Ravi’s computer. Ravi had been inviting people to watch his roommate and M.B.


If there is a lesson to be learned it is that the electronic gadgets that people enjoy are not toys for casual use. Anyone can easily video, text or email.


But there are consequences to all actions. Invasion of privacy is not a prank. Targeting someone because of his sexual orientation is not fair sport; it’s a hate crime. And for all the ease there is in texting and emailing, there is an electronic trail that cannot be deleted.


It was not a childish prank. It was not an accident. It was a despicable invasion of privacy, one motivated by Clementi’s sexual orientation. To Ravi, his roommate’s private life was potential entertainment. There will no doubt be a legal appeal. We are confident justice will prevail.




http://www.northjersey.com/news/opinions/143030915_Justice_for_Clementi.html
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When I think of privacy I think of all the AIDS sufferers who endured their illness in private because no one was coming forward. I think of all the unmarried, pregnant women who were sent away "to visit their aunt" all because of privacy. Other than having committed some crime how, exactly, does one or society benefit from privacy?

In both examples society ostracised such individuals until it came into the light. The same can be said of homosexuality.

Do the benefits of privacy outweigh the costs?
 
apple0154 said:
When I think of privacy I think of all the AIDS sufferers who endured their illness in private because no one was coming forward. I think of all the unmarried, pregnant women who were sent away "to visit their aunt" all because of privacy. Other than having committed some crime how, exactly, does one or society benefit from privacy?

In both examples society ostracised such individuals until it came into the light. The same can be said of homosexuality.

Do the benefits of privacy outweigh the costs?
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The right to privacy is the reason given to allow legalized abortion, do you think it is a benefit to society?
 
bravo said:
He isn't smarter than everyone else.....he only claims to be "smarter than YOU".....:good4u:

But then, we all are.
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Wrong again, Blabo. He claims to be smarter than everyone. I must confess it looks as though he is smarter than you.

Poor Blabo.
 
Carlos Spicy Weiner said:
What you just described is privacy.
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Privacy: the state of being free from intrusion or disturbance in one's private life or affairs: the right to privacy.

If privacy is the reason abortion is allowed then wouldn't privacy apply to smoking pot? Or suicide? Surely the right to determine if one desires to live or die is a private matter.

Also, if we look at the words "intrusion" and "disturbance" in the definition there is a difference between exposing ones actions verses interferring in ones actions. I suppose I view privacy as keeping something secret as opposed to having the right to do something.
 
apple0154 said:
Privacy: the state of being free from intrusion or disturbance in one's private life or affairs: the right to privacy. If privacy is the reason abortion is allowed then wouldn't privacy apply to smoking pot? Or suicide? Surely the right to determine if one desires to live or die is a private matter. Also, if we look at the words "intrusion" and "disturbance" in the definition there is a difference between exposing ones actions verses interferring in ones actions. I suppose I view privacy as keeping something secret as opposed to having the right to do something.
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Would posting something about another person that was shared with you in confidence be a violation of privacy?
 
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