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Puzzledtraveller

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31. What bit of privacy should be afforded to you?

Thu Dec 27, 2012, 10:00 AM

Dec 2012

Do you want the government in your bedroom? Maybe every call you make, every search you make should be open for all of us to see, right now. Would that be okay with you? Explain; "I don't care about privacy", please indulge the audience.

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Why do some people want total transparency of all politicians,but cry privacy for themselves? [View all] graham4anything Dec 2012 OP

You have a lot in common with my mother-in-law. Remmah2 Dec 2012 #1

Hello, Mr Zuckerberg JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2012 #2

Politicians are public figures JohnnyBoots Dec 2012 #3

Because unlike politicians I'm not living in the public eye and choosing to represent people Arcanetrance Dec 2012 #4

Living in the public eye is not the same as having everything 100% public karynnj Dec 2012 #35

Politicans are common people. The original intent was for everyone to be part of the system graham4anything Dec 2012 #5

? Lurker Deluxe Dec 2012 #10

Your profile is enlightening. GeorgeGist Dec 2012 #6

Which profile? Are you another misreading it? graham4anything Dec 2012 #8

because we are oddoneout Dec 2012 #7

You are the government. graham4anything Dec 2012 #9

why oddoneout Dec 2012 #24

If I am the government oddoneout Dec 2012 #26

The gun ownership list was a public record. Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #29

It's the job of politicians to tell the rest of us how to live Fumesucker Dec 2012 #11

so there are no criminals or regular people doing corrupt things? Only politicians? graham4anything Dec 2012 #12

The press is supposed to keep us informed about that aspect. Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #30

They are us, voting for us. They don't have any power, just majority rules. graham4anything Dec 2012 #14

Um Lurker Deluxe Dec 2012 #17

??? That is for compromise, not for wanting 100% and getting nothing. graham4anything Dec 2012 #19

The "in" party gets what they want? Lurker Deluxe Dec 2012 #23

Holy hell Lurker Deluxe Dec 2012 #15

Who writes the laws but politicians? Fumesucker Dec 2012 #16

Of coarse politicians write laws Lurker Deluxe Dec 2012 #21

... Fumesucker Dec 2012 #22

And? Lurker Deluxe Dec 2012 #28

How do you think pot got illegal in the first place? Fumesucker Dec 2012 #36

look ... squirrel Lurker Deluxe Dec 2012 #39

Do not Fumesucker Dec 2012 #43

buy 2 sodas. Nobody is stopping you graham4anything Dec 2012 #34

So... Lurker Deluxe Dec 2012 #37

actually, you pay the health care forward graham4anything Dec 2012 #38

I don't care about privacy. If society were more of an open book, we'd be better off. nt Comrade_McKenzie Dec 2012 #13

What bit of privacy should be afforded to you? Puzzledtraveller Dec 2012 #31

I charge 99.9% on my c/c. I use EZ pass. The supermarket knows I buy charmin graham4anything Dec 2012 #33

WOW Lurker Deluxe Dec 2012 #41

Read your headline. NCTraveler Dec 2012 #18

it's easy-they are hypocrites graham4anything Dec 2012 #20

to quote the Who, "Go To The Mirror" hobbit709 Dec 2012 #25

and Pete sang he hoped to go before he got old, and now he is old and bald and Roger is fat graham4anything Dec 2012 #32

Wow. woo me with science Dec 2012 #27

And people say Emo Progs seek attention Fumesucker Dec 2012 #40

There is nothing hypocritical about it rock Dec 2012 #42