(December 26, 2012 at 12:53 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Well it's done, and we have a social experiment in progress. I hope someone is gathering statistics on all this. I'm interested if crimes will follow a pattern (target homes with guns, 'cause guns are valuable; or target homes without gun, 'cause they don't got guns).
Abuse of power is the issue, and that is what I was addressing. I don't think that should be a "social experiment". This was a very bad and dangerous message that newspaper sent.
This can affect all of us if other media entities decide to invade our privacy on WHATEVER issue.
No entity public or private should ever have free reign to do whatever it wants simply because it has the power. This scares me much more because this is a tool society uses to hold government to account, and it turned around and turned on society.
It is a violation of public trust and abuse of power. It wouldn't matter to me if they were "outing" doctors or gays or Muslims.
