Facebook has privacy settings, such that anyone who wants to limit their posts’ direct visibility can.
Whether you should take someone else’s settings as explicit consent should probably vary from person to person, but I think the “if he didn’t want it to be widely seen he wouldn’t have set it up to be widely seen” heuristic is probably accurate when applied to EY, even if it’s not applicable to every Joe Grandpa.
Even in the Joe Grandpa case, it doesn’t seem like merely avoiding citing and moving on is a good solution. If you truly fear that someone is sharing more to the world than they intend to, the kind thing to do is inform them and help them fix it, not ignore them and pray that everyone else who stumbles upon it shares your sense of decorum.
EY was explicit about him posting certain views to facebook instead of posting them to LW because of the reputational cost that comes from him posting far-out ideas on LW. That why he deleted his last big post (the 1st april post).
Facebook has privacy settings, such that anyone who wants to limit their posts’ direct visibility can.
Whether you should take someone else’s settings as explicit consent should probably vary from person to person, but I think the “if he didn’t want it to be widely seen he wouldn’t have set it up to be widely seen” heuristic is probably accurate when applied to EY, even if it’s not applicable to every Joe Grandpa.
Even in the Joe Grandpa case, it doesn’t seem like merely avoiding citing and moving on is a good solution. If you truly fear that someone is sharing more to the world than they intend to, the kind thing to do is inform them and help them fix it, not ignore them and pray that everyone else who stumbles upon it shares your sense of decorum.
EY was explicit about him posting certain views to facebook instead of posting them to LW because of the reputational cost that comes from him posting far-out ideas on LW. That why he deleted his last big post (the 1st april post).