Apologies if I misinterpreted your point. What I’m mainly speaking to is how this article is a call to personal responsibility by asking for restraint from the public (which I don’t see likely to materialize) while maintaining what seems like a sympathetic tone to the couple in question, who did not exercise personal responsibility in their actions by attending a public event where anyone could reasonably assume cameras would be present. In addition, the statement made by the CEO read like a hollow attempt to play the victim. I hate living in a panopticon, too, but we can’t pretend we don’t and then get outraged when things like this inevitably happen.

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lol, nobody expects the papparazi, we have many weapons

If you’re not living a lie and being unfaithful to your family, there isn’t much they can do to you.

it's also a thing if you have lots of money you go to the VIP section anyway, this is a big part of the reason why they have VIP sections - for celebrities to not get mobbed.

Best place to violate your marriage in relative privacy.

well, loser if that's what he was caught doing and double loser for doing it at all, and triple loser for doubling down with this kind of codswallop.

When you try your best, but you don’t succeed…

They were/are cheats and fools. And now they'll pay a heavy price. That's on them, though I'd argue the price is extreme.

That our culture now revels in seeking out and utterly destroying individuals whose failures have no impact on them is the part that is a sickness.

I think it’s partly a backlash to the economic divisions in society. People see these executives of billion dollar tech companies getting away with whatever they can, while they’re struggling to keep a job and a roof over their heads. Their only outlet is to express their frustrations via public displays of schadenfreude.