CyranoJ
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I don't believe that 37 million people are up to no good, but it makes no difference to me. I will still defend their, and your, right to privacy.
Well, engaging in adultery is "being up to no good" pretty much by definition*. There might be variously comprehensible reasons and circumstances behind it, but (unless you're in an "open marriage") you're ultimately choosing to do something that you know is violating a trust and a contract. There is no way people do that without knowing they are "up to no good;" that knowledge is precisely what the site's image was built to cater to. It's just that their security promises turned out to be hollow.
* That said, who knows what percentage of the site's users actually went through with anything. It could be substantially lower than the total membership but that might not spare some people from being ruined by disclosure anyway. So I guess I can also see your point.
Bramblethorn said:I'm always a little wary about that sort of stuff because... yeah, sex trafficking is a real and horrible thing*, but "trafficking" is also invoked as an excuse to justify cracking down on consensual sex work.
Agree completely, very much so. That's why I'm curious to see if there will be any actual verification of whether the website was involved with anything that resembled actual "trafficking" or if that's just over-the-top rhetoric.