Ah, Montana… Big Sky Country, a state where freedom-loving citizens pride themselves on their independence and pioneer spirit; where outspoken conservatives, libertarians and radical right-wing militiamen are striving to create a pro-liberty culture, where there are no publicly funded schools, gun control laws would be abolished, and health and social services privatized. Also a place where the town of Bozeman (An “All America City”) is asking city job applicants to share their private logins and passwords to social networking and other Web sites as part of a background check Go figure.
Apparently, responding to the storm of outrage from across the country, the city may look at changing the policy so that they could view an applicant’s social networking sites without asking for login information. One option would be to have an applicant add the city as a “friend” on such sites as Facebook. Now what could possibly be wrong with that, huh?
I’m starting to think Americans don’t really understand the difference between privacy and personal information.
Why do I get the feeling your only problem is one of scale and goals? If this were done on a massive scale by a leftist government (and it is) we’d unlikely hear a peep from you (and we don’t).
The lessons I get from this:
(1) Government cannot be trusted. No surpirse here. This a a conservative trait. You didn’t know?
(2) This truly awful idea will go nowhere because people who value their privacy will either (a) not apply for the few jobs with the city of Bozeman that this application requirement applies to, (b) avoid disclosure on the applications by — surprise! — not disclosing the pertinent information, or (c) complain, and force Bozeman to back off. People are already complaining, so I bet the offending application request will have a life expectancy shorter than my attention span for one of Ti-Guy’s inane comments.
(3) Idiotic leftards post this to bait conservatives. A prime example of knee-jerk jerkitude is the Ti-Guy with his nonsensical statement about Americans’s not understanding what privacy is. He says this in the face of this video clip where the it is made clear that the citizens of this Montana town are outraged. Ti-Guy, it would be better if just one of your comments had even a slight connection to reality. Another example is RT’s pathetic and misplaced snobbery. This will be difficult, because it is part of the Red Tory make-up. Chalk it up to Canadian inferiority.
(4) The last lesson is that leftists are far better at violating real rights — forget about this imaginary violation in Bozeman. Just look at the Canadian human rights commission. With that Orwellian organization , there is no need to apply for a job to have your unalienable rights violated. Just write a book or keep a blog that the leftist PC brigades don’t like.
I’m starting to think Canadians don’t really understand the difference between real rights and a ham sandwich.
Yawn.
…..zzzzzz.
(4) Just write a book or keep a blog that the leftist PC brigades don’t like.
Just out of curiosity, how many blogs have been shut down by the Canadian Human Rights commission? Considering what a boring, endless, repetitive theme attacks on the commission are by some on the right, there must have been many, many of their blogs shut down so far. So, how many in total? Break it down by year to make the massive numbers more intelligible….
5) Paranoia is a Conservative trait.
“Paranoia is a Conservative trait.”
You’re just being paranoid, sapphic.
“Considering what a boring, endless, repetitive theme attacks on the commission are by some on the right …”
As I said, Canadians don’t know the difference between real rights and a ham sandwich.
“Yawn,” said Red.
Oh, ya got me there, pardner!
“zzzzz,” said deputy Ti-Guy.
Always a side-kick or junkyard/deputy dog, huh, Ti-Guy? But never fear! I have high hopes for you.
Nevertheless, I do apologize for the heft of my first comment. Lesson number 1 of that comment was totally irrelevant. The issue is one of employer-employee, not government vs. citizen.
Stupid me.
You’re just being paranoid, sapphic.
Well I have always wondered whether my cats were fascist and out to get me…
You lost me at “idiotic leftards” — hence the yawn. It invalidated anything else you may have been attempting to communicate.
Red, you don’t mean “invalidated” you mean, “You hurt my feelings, clown, and I refused to read further.” Besides, “idiotic leftards” is clownspeak for “esteemed blogger.” So, read the rest of my brilliant analysis and prepare to be enlightened.
Sapph, it’s not just YOUR cats; it’s all cats.
You’ll have to do a lot better than that to hurt my feelings, Asshat. (Don’t mind if I call you that, do you?)
Besides, the fact that you refused to address the questions put to you by Skeptik indicates to me that it’s a waste of time to engage in dialog with you.
If you want to clown around, that’s fine, but that being the case, I’m not particularly interested in anything you’ve got to say.
Sure you can call me “Asshat” — and I like that you capitalized it. It differentiates you from every other school-age dumbass who thinks he’s being clever by using trite, and no longer funny, name-calling.
Don’t weep for Skeptik, Red. The poor guy didn’t realize that his question had no relevance to the hurtful effect the “human rights” commissions have on free speech just by their current actions alone. They don’t need to “shut down” some offensive blog by throwing a switch somewhere and confiscating some poor sap’s laptop. They just continue to do what they do. You know, you don’t have to be clown to figure that out. Skeptik’s lack of understanding I see: He can’t even spell his own name. What’s your excuse?
This is an odd trait: acquiescence in the face of soft fascism — only, when you think of it, it ain’t so soft.
“If you want to clown around, that’s fine ….”
Me? Never! I take all of you with the utmost seriousness.
Except Ti-Guy. I’m not convinced Ti-Guy is really human. And I hate a name that looks like it should be easy to pronounce in English, but gives us proper speakers reason to doubt the intended pronunciation. Does it rhyme my tie? Tee hee? Wee pee? I think it might be French, but every time I see that name I think of some Gollum-like creature rubbing his precioussssss. This probably isn’t too far from the truth, except that I think Tee Ghee’s concocted some elaborate set of life experiences, which he then tries to apply to his real existence, that of blog gadfly: No blog of his own, just watch-dog of the blogs of others and occasional troll. At least he’s branching out from McClelland’s cesspool (RIP), but I question choice of homes to guard. Nevertheless, he’s able to fool most people into thinking he’s real, but I think he never gets out.
I always thought that, if I had my own WordPress blog, this would be a fun plug-in. For a while, anyway.
I’m sure it’s great, but the link is broken.
Perfect!