Unless being stupid involves getting caught.
One of the greatest achievements of the internet is bringing all the stupid people together. Usually we idiots spend our lives being mocked, being told to shut up and being forced to stand in the corner.
On the internet we don’t have to tolerate the smart people, the witty people, the strong people or the popular people. We can go elsewhere; we can meet together and bask in a intense and glorious aura of moronic synergy.
“O hai! Im in ur intartubes mekkin u stupid!”
There’s freedom in being stupid on the internet. Sadly, for those of us with employers, families and friends, there’s also a cost, because we haven’t actually left the smart, witty and strong people behind.
They’re still there, watching us… watching us… and waiting for us to get caught.
The kicker for Josh (getting caught, above) is that he never posted any photos to Facebook. Someone else did. Publishing embarrassing photographs of people on a global medium without their permission is either downright mean or colossally stupid, and so it wasn’t only Josh’s stupidity that was his downfall.
The resolution in this case was the right one, in my opinion. Josh drove drunk. He wasn’t remorseful. He was partying and joking about it after the fact. He deserved his sentence; justice was served.
But this case is only a hair removed from one where the photos are taken grossly out of context; where they have misleading or false tags/ comments (“Josh, you’re always getting plastered and doing coke, yo!”) and where an innocent person is railroaded.
It’s a sad, sad day for the morons.
Of course, if you’re stupid, you don’t care about your privacy.