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Schmidt was echoing the sentiments of his old co-conspirator, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy: "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it":

https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/

Both men knew better. Schmidt, in particular, is *very* jealous of his own privacy. When #Cnet reporters used Google to uncover and publish public (but intimate and personal) facts about Schmidt, Schmidt ordered Google PR to ignore *all* future requests for comment from Cnet reporters:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/how-cnet-got-banned-by-google/

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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

(Like everything else he does, Elon Musk's policy of responding to media questions about Twitter with a poop emoji is just him copying things other people thought up, making them worse, and taking credit for them:)

https://www.theverge.com/23815634/tesla-elon-musk-origin-founder-twitter-land-of-the-giants

Schmidt's actions do not reflect an attitude of "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." Rather, they are the normal response that we all have to getting doxed.

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