What's with the hypocrasy among reddit users regarding violations of privacy?

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One is the government agency violating the constutuion. The other is a smart person exposing serious security flaws in private companies media storage.

One is political gibberish, the other is naked hotties. Priorities, my friend.

Josh Hamilton's Addiction wrote:

If you go on reddit and start a post about how you don't care that the NSA spies on all Americans, you'll get a harsh response about invasion of privacy, etc. Yet, when someone hacked into the phones of multiple celebrities--violating their privacy--to post nude photos on the web, reddit users met the event with celebration. Why is there such a huge double standard among that community?

Spellcheck is your friend bro.

Josh Hamilton's Addiction wrote:

If you go on reddit and start a post about how you don't care that the NSA spies on all Americans, you'll get a harsh response about invasion of privacy, etc. Yet, when someone hacked into the phones of multiple celebrities--violating their privacy--to post nude photos on the web, reddit users met the event with celebration. Why is there such a huge double standard among that community?

Unless I'm mistaken, there are multiple "sects" for reddit users. At the very least, I know there's some sort of sub-forum for atheists to talk about atheist things, and another one for Christians to talk about Christian things and whatnot.

Assuming that there's some sort of sub-population for basically every political view that exists, it's likely that different posts are met primarily by groups with different opinions.

For example, you posting about how you don't care that the NSA spies on Americans. You're much more likely to get responses from people opposing it, since it furiously riles them up, than you are to get responses from people who agree with it.

In the case of nude celebrity photos, I'm 100% sure that the vast majority of people who would click on a thread like that are males who are desperate to see the photos, as opposed to individuals who are concerned with preaching privacy rights.

Good point, OP.

Reddit is a cesspool of losers who live in their mom's basement.

Ralphie toes. wrote:

Reddit is a cesspool of losers who live in their mom's basement.

Is Reddit the new Letsrun then?

Josh Hamilton's Addiction wrote:

If you go on reddit and start a post about how you don't care that the NSA spies on all Americans, you'll get a harsh response about invasion of privacy, etc. Yet, when someone hacked into the phones of multiple celebrities--violating their privacy--to post nude photos on the web, reddit users met the event with celebration. Why is there such a huge double standard among that community?

Have you ever studied moral philosophy or engaged in ethical thinking? Do you really think these two things are exactly equal in import and moral effect on the populace, impact on our nation's future and on the future of human civilization? Have you studied History and social sciences? Ever heard of utilitarianism? It's true that, superficially, there could be said to exist a double standard.

You live in the crappola reality that most young adults live in--blind to responsibility and place in history. The NSA leaks--which would not otherwise be known--exist in the vein of the history and struggle of civilization towards progress, stability and morals. Abuse of power, totalitarianism, surveillance, corruption--do you know how much murder, bloodshed, suffering, iniquity, devastation these have caused? And how the pillars of the entire history and work and sacrifice of mankind, the foundations, were shaken by such?

No, most young people these days are just out for status, degrees, jobs, marriage, sex, etc. in such vain superficial ways. And then, cognitive dissonance comes into effect when something like this happens--only whine when their selfish lifestyle gets threatened.

There are people who probably correctly believe that this event is not really an event but that such security breeches occur all the time, in every realm, since the dawn of the digital age. I don't think it was just 1 iCloud thing, the breeches were not made in one fell swoop and while people are entitled to privacy, dignity and financial stability, some of these celebrities are vacuous, soulless idiots who contribute garbage art and are self-serving greedy lunatics. So what if some reddit kids get off on naked celebrity pics and seem to not care about privacy? And, if you hadn't noticed, those same dudes, in this whole time, have raised money for charity.

I could go on and on but you should come up with reasons yourself.

Josh Hamilton's Addiction wrote:

If you go on reddit and start a post about how you don't care that the NSA spies on all Americans, you'll get a harsh response about invasion of privacy, etc. Yet, when someone hacked into the phones of multiple celebrities--violating their privacy--to post nude photos on the web, reddit users met the event with celebration. Why is there such a huge double standard among that community?

Also it seems--and I'm not saying this to 100% vindicate internet attitudes--that you fail to grasp the ethos of the internet--of a decentralized underground committed to free flow of information, freedom from rigid and corrupt government and corporate control, etc. Your question plays right to that. The violation of the privacy of corporate sexualized media players can be seen as a victory for the underground, the small and the diffuse, against the otherwise impossible titanic brick wall of our society's wayward institutions--government, corporate media, industry, culture, etc.

Hypocrasy? No wonder you like baseball - you're brainless.

TLDR: people only care about things that effect themselves and there is no ethical argument in favor of stealing someone's private photos.