As reprehensible as the AM site is, the hack itself is wrong. Sure, we feel some schadenfreude from seeing the high and mighty, especially those in .gov, and the “Carlos Danger” types getting a bit of karma, but a lot of this is only because it’s happened to a site we don’t agree with. That’s Liberal thinking.
How many here would applaud lifting the veil of pseudonyms from here on FR? How many might lose their jobs if all of our employers suddenly knew who we were? FR isn’t a site that encourages infidelity and contributes to the destruction of marriage, the way AM does, but the things we say and believe here are considered beyond repugnant by the idiots on DU (and therefore a big chunk of the MSM), and believed to be extreme by a wide stretch of the public. AM should have been pressured to shut down, no doubt, and condemned for the attitude they promoted, but the people who used it shouldn’t be thrown to the wolves like this. They know what they did, and it’s on them to come clean or live with the guilt. After all, isn’t Rightful Liberty being free to live as you want, so long as it doesn’t interfere with someone else’s rights, even if someone wants to do really stupid and destructive things?
—probably the best post of the day—
There could also be a degree of simple morbid curiosity
I suspect there might people that are on that list who used it for a free trial just laugh at the perverts that would use the site. Thus those people are actually not guilty of anything of consequence
(They will not find name on the list)
IIRC when Tony Snow (RIP) became Press Secretary for the President he asked that his postings here on FR be deleted so the MSM wouldn’t hound him over them so there is truth to what you say. I imagine if any of us became rather prominent we might ask JR to do the same for us. Sadly that is the current political atmosphere we live in.
I completely agree with your post. I feel like it’s only a matter of time until some left-wing hacker makes all of our real IDs public along with our FR posting histories. That might be fine for some, but I work in a leftist-heavy environment with a LIV/bordering-on-leftist manager. Any opinion to the right of what one might find on Huffington Post is hate speech to these people.
You are absolutely right.
Apples and oranges. FreeRepublic is constitutionally protected political free speech while this business was at best a conspiracy to commit family destroying betrayal or at worst serious criminal activity. The users of this business got exactly what they deserved and their loss will stand as a warning to others. This was a righteous hack.
Yeah, and the hack is plenty illegal, too
The consequence is:
"For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open." Luke 8:17