This isn’t just a private matter this was a work affair between the CEO and HR and that affects the work lives of everyone at the company. Not only is there an official corporate structure but there is now an unofficial power dynamic that complicates and tarnishes the working environment, especially when some employees know and others do not. Employees are powerless to do anything about this rather common set of circumstances and have jumped on their chance to add to the disapproval. I think that’s the factor that has given this story legs. I think two non-execs people working at different companies would not have become nearly as viral.
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#12I'm consistently reminded of Brin's The Transparent Society [0], which has some interesting arguments about this sort of thing.
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#13What an idiotic article.
> Someone posted the footage online. A pile-up ensued. And their lives were turned upside down.
No, they created a situation where their lives would inevitably be turned upside down, and one of many possible triggers was hit.
> any of us might, for any particular reason, become... flawed people in the wrong place at the wrong time
No, they are people who chose to break their word to their spouses, and to break the social contract.
> the viral potential of these kinds of stories is a warning sign that our culture is obsessed with shame, surveillance, and control.
Shame is how a society polices its members without violence. Shame is good because it leaves the parties healthier than the alternative. They deserved to be shamed.
> An obsession with other people’s private lives is a sickness.
No, it has been the normal state of humans for probably as long as humans have existed. Humans survive in groups.
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#14Huge flaw in his reasoning:
> Group chats, dating apps, emails — or in Byron’s and Cabot’s case, simply being in public with no intention to be filmed — should not be subject to public judgement.
He's equating things where you should have an expectation of privacy with "simply" cheating on one's spouse in a public space.
And why does intention matter? People should have expectations of privacy in public spaces if they don't intend to be seen? Is that really the claim here?
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#15Pro tip : Don’t be seen at a public event with someone that is not your spouse/partner
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#17I don't want to preach how things should be, but the way things are, it should help to pretend that any and every moment of your life outside of home or a hotel will legally end up on YouTube, so act accordingly. Mask your face or your behavior, maybe both.
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#18> True, the current culture on X and other social-media apps is perhaps less immediately destructive than it was during peak woke (circa 2017 to 2021). Pardon?
Stopped reading at that, he revealed his colours
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#19I feel like HR is often perceived as such a frequent source of workplace pain there's an element of schadenfreude here.
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