ACTORS & ACTRESSES ( say the silliest things )

Having your privacy invaded -celebrity or not- is not a funny thing in and of itself, but I suppose it's funny from a satirical and societal perspective (I realise noticing this takes the fun out of it). But I imagine that's not why you find it funny. I could be wrong.

Given that he posted a link to the actual photos rather than an article about it suggests otherwise. That's what I find curious. Did I look at some of the photos? Sure, I'm not taking any moral high ground here. Do I find it funny? Not really.

Those Hollywood girls are mostly much too skinny for my taste anyway.

I will never raise an objection to having the opportunity to see a beautiful naked woman. But I do think the "if they don't want people to see them, they shouldn't take them" argument (which fortunately nobody has used here) is completely asinine. "If he didn't want someone to steal his car, why did he leave it on the road?" etc.

If you're a celeb and you know that everyone on earth wants to see you naked, then you don't store your photos of you naked and with dicks in your mouth and sync them with the web for backup. You take them offline and enjoy privately. As i said, no pity for foolishness.

I haven't seen them.

James didn't say that. James causterized the 'they shouldn't have taken them at all' argument. I said take them and enjoy them offline but never have them online in any machine that goes on the internet and esp. if it actually backups them online. Re-read what he and I wrote.

That's a good point. I agree some caution on their part certainly would have been a sensible option, but at the same time they were assured their data was safe in Lando Calrissian's Cloud City. So perhaps the problem was more a lack of vigilance on their part than any conscious decision to take a risk.

D seems to be suggesting this invasion of privacy is itself funny (because clearly all celebrities deserve to be ridiculed and embarrassed like this) which is what I find peculiar. It seems sadistic. Sure, the best humour generally comes from much darker places, and I'm all for non-PC humour - but there's a difference between laughing at something and laughing with something.

Anyway. I'm merely noticing, not trying to take a moral stance (a point D has clearly missed, try as I might). I couldn't care less about these celebrities and their embarrassment. Boobs ftw and all that.

I agree it's not funny at all (if anything, as you probably got from my post, I find it angrily annoying).

Seems to me though that D. departs from much the same point as I do, although with a different slant: I am annoyed at them (the celebs), being in the public eye and still throwing all sensible caution to the wind. D. finds them silly, on the same grounds. But I don't want to put words in anyone's mouth, and I can see how his post could be read differently, yeah.



Oh, I couldn't agree more! It is insanely restrictive. And not just a little bit disturbing.
But as I said, I am not arguing morality here.

It's a different world out there from twenty years back.
For all the truly marvellous things that a fully connected world has brought us (case in point: us talking! ), there is a dark and seedy underbelly like websites that thrive on 'revenge porn' (that that us even a phrase now is disturbing as hell). Couple that with storage media that leaks like a sieve and untethered access to online media for certain security channels, and I -and I consider myself a generally sensible person- would certainly take a minute to think about certain risks.

Nothing paranoid.
Just in the same way as I'd think about closing the downstairs windows when going out. Locking my door. Not carrying my wallet in my back pocket. Ordinary, precautionary stuff that we've long since gotten used to.

I do not condemn anyone for falling prey to a predator.
But I do berate them for not being more careful. Uploading phone porn to the cloud was incredibly careless and naive.

You said it, Captain.

Did you have a hard time researching all that?

sid

Didn't we have some members who also shared this view a bit while ago in the religion topic?

Excuse me, He's a twat and is a universal well-known fact by now? We didn't really need this confirmation.