from the "i can't believe i have to explain this" department

[jazzfish]

The ability to lock your posts to a subset of your readers creates an expectation, and culture, of privacy. The ability to broadcast comments made in locked posts breaks that expectation and defies the norms of that culture.

Telling people "you shouldn't put anything anywhere on the internet you don't want someone else to read" is blaming the victim. The weaker version, "if you don't trust people not to abuse this then don't friend them," is still blaming the victim. Don't do it.

Comments

[chaobell]

You know, I realize there's this thing called "ctrl-c-ctrl-v" and if someone really wants to post a comment they make on a locked post, complete with quotes of the bits that are the reason it's locked, to Facespace, the lack of a couple of tickyboxen isn't going to stop them.

THAT DOES NOT MAKE IT OKAY AND IT SURE AS SHIT DOES NOT JUSTIFY MAKING IT EASIER FOR THEM TO DO IT

[jazzfish]

It's the "easier" that bugs me more than anything. (well, that and a lack of a TURN THIS SHIT OFF RIGHT THE HELL NOW option.) It took me awhile to realise that basically it's a disagreement between "commenters own their words" and "original poster owns the space," and this is (to me) a pretty clear case of showing no respect to the original poster. Bleh.

(Well, that plus all LJ coding is now done by lj.ru, and as someone else put it, "I swear to god there's no sense of why anyone would lock anything on the Russian side.")