Vancouver NDP candidate steps down over racy photos. ⇒
23 April 2009, lunch time
There is going to come a time when people aren't going to care about stuff like this. And it's probably going to come sooner rather than later. This link was found via Radmila.
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
I don’t think it’ll be coming any time soon. It’s always a great opportunity to oust people that weren’t wanted on the voyage.
I’m thinking that no one politics is going to close that escape hatch to getting rid of opponents any time soon.
Call me a cynic.
by radmila on April 23 2009, 3:10 pm #
At some point the voting body is going to be full of people who post stupid shit on their facebook. Though I suppose there are millions of baby boomers who smoked stupid amounts of pot and ate all the acid they could in the 60s-70s who would complain if they found out their elected officials did the same. So maybe your cynicism is correct.
by ramanan on April 23 2009, 3:28 pm #
Most organizations connected to the government now have policies including social networks to protect their clients and liability.
I suspect that one of those policies forced his resignation.
My workplace has such a policy…and posting crap to do with your workplace or identifying you with a certain organization is covered with policies that include discipline and/up to dismissal for this sort of thing.
I think that government agencies will be slow to ignore stupidness like this.
Maybe in the decades to come, people will be less concerned with integrity and the goings on of peoples personal lives, but I really don’t think it’s going to be any time soon.
Especially in the cutthroat political arena.
In small businesses I suspect that it’ll happen sooner..but, people can be real sticklers about this sort of thing…especially if they’re in the photo and are concerned for their own privacy.
by radmila on April 23 2009, 8:47 pm #