There doesn’t *need* to be two-party consent to disclose the content of an email - emails aren’t secretly recorded conversations.

And now we have the first example of why not everyone should be trusted with a gun.

It is simply staggering the amount of time and energy we as a species put into destroying things and then fixing them because of warfare. Just think what we could have accomplished had those resources been free for other pursuits.

“Deserve”? That’s a matter of opinion. Cheering when people doing things we don’t like are doxxed is a bad precedent to set. At least for anyone who still believes in the concept of privacy. What happens between two married people is their business, not the entire internet’s. Not saying I approve of AM or support…

I am in the sexless marriage community, where my spouse is not willing to have a physical relationship. The last time I even got a kiss from my wife was over 7 years ago. For my children’s sake to have two parents in their lives, I put up with such and have had to pay a terrible personal price to do so. I have thought…

What I am saying is, no matter how repuslive we find the actions of some of these individuals we can not be certain of the actions of all of these individuals (unless you posess some kind of psyhic powers). I’ve been the victim of an adulturor, I had a partner who engaged in relations with others. If anything, based…

Haven’t you gotten the memo? Right to privacy only matters for those who are viewed positively by the majority.

Ah ad hominem attacks, the refuge of the desperate. No, I know the motto of the company. It’s a disgusting company that I am ashamed is based out of my home town. The motto of the company does not mean it dictates the nature of what every person on there is using it for. But hey, go for the personal attacks, try some…

Although Groovingontherubble clearly has a weird bias here that is poisoning his point, he does have a compelling point. At the end of the day, cheating is not illegal, at least not in many places. It is morally wrong, but persecuting people who are not in the private eye because they MIGHT have done something you…

You’re totally right. And it depresses me that so many don’t get it.

What if one of the requirements was that the other person’s partner be aware of this? As I’ve said elsewhere there are entirely too many variables at play here and the puritanical “deserves it” is a morality call of an activity that is in fact legal. It is grounds for a divorce but it is not an illegal activity.…

OK, let’s say there was a closeted gay CFO that was married to a woman that supposedly wanted to hire an escort. Would it be cool if Gawker jumped on the story and support outing them & their private doings?

“People who cheat on spouses: assholes. Women and LGBT people: normal people that did nothing wrong.”

It’s for married people looking for other married people, yes, but the other variables are unknown to us. It makes massive assumptions about an activity that is in fact not illegal. But hey, the internet is full of assumptions right? Who cares who gets hurt?

Okay, let’s make this not hypothetical. By this logic, the doxxing of Zoe Quinn was entirely okay. The fact is, doxxing is wrong. Period. End of loop. Even when infidelity has not been proven, even when the moral standard of the person who is making the call may not be the moral standard of all what matters is the…

Cheating while immoral is not illegal in all places. Further, it’s a dating site for married people, while not my cuppa I know a few people who use similar sites. The concept of monogomy is increasingly changing. I do not agree with that change but who am I to force my beliefs on others? The reality is, Doxxing is…

Hacker logic: “I don’t care if you engage in a perfectly legal business enterprise! I am the ultimate digital moral authority and I decide what does and does not qualify as socially acceptable!”

A DOX is a DOX regardless of the target and is universally uncool. I for one am glad to see Ashley Madison and it’s child sites perish but this is entirely uncool and the way the tech community is relishing in it is entirely at odds with their “pro-privacy” and “Doxxing is wrong” stance elsewhere.

I am married, I have…

There is no logic, no well-reasoned argument, no appeal to humanity that will change the behavior of someone enjoying the particular kind of mental illness Cliff describes. A grenade might do it, but I doubt it. Cliff is a survivor and a particular compassionate one as well. But it would be immensely satisfying to…

This is my mother-in-law. She would do it for the whole movie. At Christmas it got so bad my poor 15-year-old sister-in-law just snapped. “OH MY GOD MOM SHUT THE FUCK UP! NOBODY KNOWS WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW BECAUSE WE CAN’T HEAR OVER YOU!” I’ll be making sure we get her a larger-than-average gift for her birthday next…