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>Recall, for example, this comment of Schmidt’s from 2009, regarding Google and privacy: "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place."

It's ironic that Schmidt's quote is taken completely out of context, & will follow him around for years if not decades to come. Maybe he should change his name.

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It's not ironic, it's sad.

It's sad that "press" or bloggers like Gruber either can't read or go for sensationalist angle and crucify someone based on benign remarks taken out of context.

It's sad that supposedly intelligent audience like HN falls for it and instead of ignoring it altogether or discussing when Gruber became full of shit, we're actually discussing his post as if what he wrote actually had merit.

But that's not Schmidt's fault. It's all on Gruber.

What is ironic is that you actually said the thing that Schmidt didn't. Per Gruber that makes you a creep.

Can you cite the context?

Someone did, above: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1621594

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