You wouldn't assume anthing uttered in the presence of another human to be secret. The more of those humans you put together, the less seceret it becomes. I've never understood why people think that the CB should be any different. I always consider that what I say can be misrepresented, recorded without my knowledge, and used later agiants my will, and even modified or twisted and used later. You just have to hope in life that people will be smart enough to recognize that certain comments have been taken out of context and don't have the meaning they appear to. If you are afraid that your comments will be misunderstood or taken out of context, then I wonder if you fear everytime you open your mouth in public? By "you" and didn't mean you specificaly EdwardG, I just meant those people who fear long CB history. I understand that people arn't always smart enough to distinguish when comments have been taken out of context, I've heard the stories about comments from the CB being used as evidence in a trial, none of that changes the fact that it IS a public medium and should be treated as such when you use it. Wishing it wasn't, doesn't make it so. I hope this doesn't upset anybody, it represents only my views and thoughts on the matter.


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Eric Hodges

In reply to Re: CB history and Google's cache by eric256
in thread CB history and Google's cache by EdwardG

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