Politics in 15 years, post Twitter/Facebook

[dninja at gmail.com (Robin Wood)]

On 6 April 2010 20:37, Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek at irongeek.com> wrote:
> I got to ask Bruce Schneier a question at a recent conference:
> http://is.gd/bhxtu
>
> I had? been thinking about this for awhile, and we even talked about it on
> ISDPodcast 100. It concerns young folks now saying things on
> Twitter/Facebook that they may regret later if they enter politics. What do
> you think? Will people in the future be more forgiving of youthful
> statements, or will we only be able to elect people so technologically dim,
> or maybe just boring, to have never said something offensive on a social
> network?

I think society will have to put up with it as people are always going
to say and do things that in future they could regret. There will
probably be a few high profile scandals that will make people think a
bit more but the fear of doing something now that could possibly lead
to something bad in the future isn't going to worry most people too
much.

Just think of all the drunk texts that get sent, much smaller scale
and people know the risks and probably have either done it or know
someone who has but it doesn't stop them getting their phone out after
10 pints and sending things they shouldn't to people they shouldn't.

Robin