This is fucking ridiculous. The guy has a bone to pick, he picks it. Outing someone is serious business, that is your private life. Who knows the kind of personal trauma he suffered as a result?
There are things about many people that were they to come out in a public, Googleable way, they would damage their career and relationship prospects permanently. How many careers have these kinds of publications destroyed?
That's why I side with the less-than-moral-but-not-illegal private behaviours of various people. The recent lawsuit filed by a confirmed prostitute and stripper(!) against a famous VC comes to mind. Of course, by the time he responded exactly in the manner I predicted (only a few days later), the damage had already been done. He had been removed from his partnership role at the VC fund.
This shit is serious and people play games with it.
I dislike PayPal immensely but picking on Thiel for defending someone whose sex tape was released without their consent is sad.
The point of the article is mainly to illustrate the disconnect between journalists and the public (as illustrated by the jury's ruling) over the importance of people who publish this online (not calling sex tape publishers journalists).
There are things about many people that were they to come out in a public, Googleable way, they would damage their career and relationship prospects permanently. How many careers have these kinds of publications destroyed?
That's why I side with the less-than-moral-but-not-illegal private behaviours of various people. The recent lawsuit filed by a confirmed prostitute and stripper(!) against a famous VC comes to mind. Of course, by the time he responded exactly in the manner I predicted (only a few days later), the damage had already been done. He had been removed from his partnership role at the VC fund.
This shit is serious and people play games with it.