What's your opinion of the (alledged) Weiner photo?

In My Humble Opinion
1

Here is a thread I started on “Weinergate.” Basically, a photo of a pair of grey boxer shorts with a bulge in them appeared on Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account. No nudity was involved, and the senator claims his account was hacked.

So what’s your opinion on that type of photo?

2

I thought this poll would be about whether or not we think he sent the photo, or was hacked.

Am I supposed to answer with the assumption that he did send it?

3

Yeah, I don’t get it either. The question doesn’t make sense to me.

4

By “public Internet site” do you mean his Twitter account?

5

Don’t really care, but this shows that:

  1. Posting photos on the Internet, no matter what kind of photo, means they are “out there” forever.
  2. Anyone in the public eye (politician, business owner, someone in the arts, etc.) is going to be scrutinized.
  3. If you have any plans of getting further in your career, you might want to be careful about posting any photo or comment with your real name attached, unless it is something you don’t care if the entire world sees.
    I tell my students to be careful about what they post anywhere - even “private” comments and photos might come back to haunt them. Yes, our society is changing and more people think like I do - “Who cares?” - but many people don’t have quite that liberal viewpoint. Employers now regularly check up on Facebook and other public forums to see things about people they might want to hire - if they see 38 pictures of you drunk, partially nude and writing comments about calling into work/school faking being sick and out partying instead, you might have lost the job.

So, getting back to the man with the unfortunate name - Mr. Weiner simply should have known better. The photo itself isn’t all that horrible, but the fact that he was stupid enough, at his age, to do this doesn’t exude confidence in his ability to govern anybody. Even if this photo was hacked, it still shows that he wasn’t clever enough to cover his tracks…not someone I would vote for to be in a position to keep police files and ongoing discussions/negotiations confidential. It shows a definite lack in common sense.

6

Who’s the chucklehead that said this should be illegal? Great, another law: “Do not post pictures of your bulge, even covered, on the Internet, not even if it’s actually someone else’s bulge.”

FWIW, I think it was his, but I can’t really be arsed to care. Or maybe it’s a practical joke. It’s so far down on my list of “bad things” it’s ridiculous.

If it is his, though, as I think so, what a silly and juvenile thing to do.

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I don’t believe he sent it. I don’t think there’s a snowball’s chance in hell that anyone - Rep or Dem, Jew or Christian, old or young - who has used Twitter longer than a day thinks that anything they post on Twitter is private. If you told me GWB or Dan Quayle or even Sara Palin “sent” something questionable like that via Twitter, I’d tell you they got hacked.

As for the legality…wut?