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Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past"

Posted by samzenpus on from the watch-how-you-play dept.

Google's Eric Schmidt says that people's private lives are so well documented now that the young will have to change their names when reaching adulthood to avoid their youthful indiscretions. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal Schmidt says: "I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time." A fresh start from the stupid things you did as a kid seems like a good thing. Now we just need a way to get rid of the dreaded family photo album.

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  1. Your Favorite Youthful Indiscretion? by Nzimmer911 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Flaming farts? Star Wars Kid?

  2. Call me a extremist if you want by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    But on the whole, I wouldn't hire the guy who somehow thinks throwing in your neighbors windows is "acceptable" no matter your age.

    Gosh, I expected an example like a kid caught skipping school, or listening to some really bad music or being drunk. Not serious crime.

    Oh, I set an orphanage on fire at 16, but that is just kids being kids.

    Somewhere there is a level between stuff you shouldn't have done but you grew out of it AND serious warning signs that this person has trouble separating right from wrong. And the OP crossed.

    What he wants is the "no consequences" society. Where nothing is ever your fault and you should never be made to face the consequences of your actions. The kind of world Amnesty International wants were not a single criminal would ever do time because it is just to hard on them.

    Sorry, but the majority says NO.

    If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. And the time is the rest of your fucking life. On behalf of everyone who did NOT throw in their neighbors windows. GET STUFFED.

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  3. Re:Either that by dissy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, it'd be better if they just killed their victims.?

    So you're saying that people who've been victims of sex crimes would be better off if they committed suicide?

    If the person that did the sex crime killed them self? Of course that would be preferred!

    Or are you just purposely redefining 'they' to be a different person, to somehow relate murder and suicide?