Why does anybody care that their porn viewing habits become public? To me it sounds as ridiculous as somebody threatening to publish a log of the food we eat or the music we listen to.
Most people aren’t not comfortable to be open about those topics. Many of the reasons would be worthy of months or years of therapy for even themselves to understand.
Is it really that hard to imagine? US alone made (for us Europeans a bit weird but we don't mind at the end) very popular categories of porn like "banging stepsister/brother/mother/father", I am pretty sure those folks wouldn't like that history revealed to their close ones.
And TBH, I simply don't want to know other folk's preference even if its a very mundane one. Don't need to add that 'feature' to the mental model of them I have in my mind, what I have is already too much sometimes.
But in the context of this thread, where a company was threatening to do this in a developed democratic country, that is not an issue, is it?
Societal disapproval can be divided between people you interact with and strangers. Why would anybody what strangers think of them, particularly when those strangers would have to been rummaging into porn watching databases to begin with?
As for coworkers, friends or family, why would they be interested in learning about your porn habits again? And if they bother you about it, wouldn't you want to rethink whether you want to keep them around? Personally, I don't keep in touch with people who seriously judge my life choices -- and that has only happened once, so it's not such a big deal either.
I don't go around talking about my porn watching habits for the simple reason that I am sufficiently attuned to social customs to understand that nobody has any interest in them.
You can't be shamed for something you are not ashamed of. If a porn provider made them public for whatever reason, it would not bother me one iota. So, I am asking, genuinely, why would anybody care.
So far the replies are things like "do eet!! lOLLOL" or "it can get you killed", so I have lost interest at this point. After some thought, I guess that some people are unquestioningly ashamed of their sexual preferences, which is sad. Living your life without the burden of shame is much better, as any queer person can tell you. There's nothing wrong with what you like.
You're right that it is a gotcha. Especially after you use line like
> Why would anybody what strangers think of them
Well, I for one am interested in your porn browsing history and looking around I'm certainly not the only one. So your excuse doesn't really fly for me either.
I find it interesting that for as much you claim to not care about this, and how unashamed you are, you're also not very willing to post it.
Now, I don't blame you for that. But, it's a bit hypocritical.
You're saying that actually all is fine and that other people shouldn't be afraid of having their porn history exposed. But you're awfully private with your own.
Along with some other parts of your comment, I can only ask, are you really that naive? Governments can change, laws can change, societies can become more sinister, along with their governing institutions. Look no further than the United States right now for something of a haphazard example, but many others from history and the modern world abound.
It's not about a given context not being risky, it's about a fundamental right to have one's own private business respected firmly, so long as it doesn't materially or physically harm others, being entrenched enough that it's hard to remove even when the state and society go bad.
The same goes for your last comment: Defending one's privacy on nothing more than how supposedly unlikely it is that others would be interested in your personal habits is a downright stupidly bad idea, and yes, it can easily turn into a big deal if something changes.
I am a member of a leftist political party in my country and I have no doubt that if the fascists get their hands on the membership database I'm shipped off to a prison camp.
On another note, a lot of places, including those in the west will ostracize you for listening to the wrong music or eating the wrong foods.
Some groups will, yes. In a lot of cases it's just simple hypocrisy; lots of "anti-gay" congressmen somehow keep getting caught soliciting sex in airport bathrooms or on grinder.
As long as they votes consistently with their stated public beliefs (icky or flawed as they are ) on which they got elected does it matter they are very different private person ?
I would go so far as to say, them being different publicly than in private is a qualification for the job, if they cannot dissociate their personal beliefs from the will of their electorate then they shouldn’t do the job .
Don’t we all have one work persona and another home one ? Being a congressman should be no different.
On the other hand, the ones who sell on a public persona to get votes and switch their voting pattern after election to a different belief system is far more of hypocrite (Sinema or fetterman?)
We have everything to hide to you.
The mandate is ancient.
"Hey, Jimmy, I went searching for your porn habits and found that you are into fat redheads. Shame on you, shame on you. You are now excommunicated from... Somewhere". How is this not a much bigger social faux pas for the accuser rather than the accused?
And why would want to keep in touch with a coworker that gives a damn about what other people want to fuck? I would go straight to HR for harassment, first of all.
That is not the same as understanding why would anybody care if their porn provider made their porn watching habits public, which is the subject of this thread.
Can you please clarify your reasoning? I fail to see the supposed "gotcha". We are not asking why doesn't everybody make their porn profile public, that's something you came up with.
They might be interested in seducing you.
Otherwise, no reason.
And in fact, privacy laws saw slow codification because the violations they are relevant to are largely preposterous.