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> No one should have any expectation of privacy for anything they put on the Internet.

Right, except Joanna Public does have this expectation and continues to do so because of manifestly poor public education about the risks of the internet. We should literally have lessons about this stuff in schools.

And as another commenter stated, these things were not "online", they were "on a computer". If I can have no expectation of privacy for things I put on a computer then that is going to lead to no expectation of privacy under any circumstances. This stuff is going to have profound social consequences and something has to change.

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I did receive education on the risks of the internet, starting in elementary school (around 4th grade). In grade school we where given school-district emails, which we used to communicate with teachers, get information from the school district, and could use to talk to other students.

I still remember when we where first given these, because our teacher gave a very long warning about using the internet. I remember the exact phrase "whatever you put on the internet will be there forever, and you can never take it down. Think about that before doing anything."

This was about a decade ago, but I grew up in Redmond, Washington, so my education is probably very different from other peoples (at least regarding computers).

Nah, that's the same education we got in 1995 in high school, too. What happened in the interim is that there were a couple of dot-com bubbles where companies encouraged you to share recklessly because they built business models on it. Ignore all that safety stuff. So I see all these services pop up that ask you to do things we were always taught not to do, it created intense feelings of unease in me, but everybody did it anyway. And then nude pics get hacked and shared, people get harassed/fired because of a global Facebook tweet saying something stupid, and everybody acts like it's a big fucking surprise when all they had to do was follow the rules. But the rules conflicted with the merger of narcissism and corporate profits.

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