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Originally Posted by Theirin
(Post 31312251)
While I'm glad that they may have been covered up now, if it was just about getting some extra views up that's even more deplorable.
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Originally Posted by oliver2002
(Post 31312191)
The pictures have been edited now. Nice clickbait to punch his pageview numbers up for July. ;)
What’s the legal situation about using “the rod of correction” or any other physical spanking method against a young child in Germany? I am expecting that it’s legal status is different there than in Malaysia, Sri Lanka and the US. Do you think his physical spanking advocacy in the blog entry was done for click-bait purposes? If so, that’s deplorable too. |
I'm sure [MENTION=131338]MatthewLAX[/MENTION] will soon arrive in this thread and weigh in. Speculation about his motivations, while fun, are probably best answered by him.
In Germany its not allowed by law, the latest edition of the law was even updated to read that a child has the right to a violence free education and besides physical punishment also pschological damage is not allowed: https://lexetius.com/BGB/1631,3 The law doesn't say what the punishment is but points out that the child may be removed from the parents. |
It's all about conversions...which it all starts with clicks.
I ignore this site. Looks like it has not changed at all. Some bloggers will do ANYTHING for a click! |
Originally Posted by gpapadop
(Post 31312514)
It's all about conversions...which it all starts with clicks.
I ignore this site. Looks like it has not changed at all. Some bloggers will do ANYTHING for a click! (Note, his initial post likely violated Article 16 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.) |
Speaking of Matthew, whatever happened with his saga about buying first class tickets on Swiss Air that he wanted reimbursed by Aeroplan? Was there ever a resolution to that? This is one of several posts on the topic dating back 18 months ago:
I’M BOOKED IN SWISS FIRST CLASS, ZURICH TO LOS ANGELES… |
With a more recent blog post, he has repeated some kind of line like this: “There is no expectations of privacy onboard an aircraft.” There actually is. If there wasn’t, some paranoid group would be clamoring for plane lavatories with large peep windows and clamoring for them in the name of “security”. If there wasn’t, airlines wouldn’t have come out saying that the IFE systems’ built-in camera holes are not enabled in some way. If there wasn’t, fewer airline FAs would make a fuss against passengers wanting to photograph manifests or otherwise see them. ... and so on. |
Originally Posted by Adam1222
(Post 31312922)
What's amazing to me is that people are surprised that Matthew Klimt has taken what most people would agree is frustrating and instead turning it into an unethical, holier-than-thou, diatribe.
Originally Posted by tom911
(Post 31313037)
Speaking of Matthew, whatever happened with his saga about buying first class tickets on Swiss Air that he wanted reimbursed by Aeroplan? Was there ever a resolution to that? This is one of several posts on the topic dating back 18 months ago:
I’M BOOKED IN SWISS FIRST CLASS, ZURICH TO LOS ANGELES…
Originally Posted by GUWonder
(Post 31313315)
With a more recent blog post, he has repeated some kind of line like this: “There is no expectations of privacy onboard an aircraft.” There actually is. If there wasn’t, some paranoid group would be clamoring for plane lavatories with large peep windows and clamoring for them in the name of “security”. If there wasn’t, airlines wouldn’t have come out saying that the IFE systems’ built-in camera holes are not enabled in some way. If there wasn’t, fewer airline FAs would make a fuss against passengers wanting to photograph manifests or otherwise see them. ... and so on. |
Originally Posted by 84fiero
Even if there is/was no legal expectation of privacy for the child, there's a difference between what's legal and what's the decent, mature, and considerate thing to do.
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Originally Posted by 84fiero
(Post 31313354)
Yeah that's a good point!
Even if there is/was no legal expectation of privacy for the child, there's a difference between what's legal and what's the decent, mature, and considerate thing to do. |
His blog entry update on the CMB-KLIA flight now basically acknowledges this was done as a form of click-bait: “Instead, I treated the incident as a spectator sport. Some of you criticized my anger, but trust me…I wasn’t angry at all. I was highly amused, noting at the very outset that this was going to be a great story to draw traffic into the blog. Indeed it was. And perhaps that is even worse than anger…” If he calls for “the rod of correction” to hit a child when not angry, what kind of violence would be called for when he is angry? |
That just makes it far worse. I'm really not the kind of person who gets involved in boycotts, etc. but I will be making an intentional effort to avoid his blog going forward.
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Originally Posted by Theirin
(Post 31313388)
And there's a difference between "You might end up in the background of someone else's pictures," and "someone might take pictures of you to share commercially on a public blog."
Not saying that there would have been a legal claim here, but to say "it was in a public place" does not make it lega. And of course, it doesn't make it morally justifiable to take pictures of a child to generate traffic to your blog. |
Originally Posted by Theirin
(Post 31313509)
I will be making an intentional effort to avoid his blog going forward.
If they were not seeing clicks...you bet ALL of these blogs would not be posting such clickbait crap! Like shocking videos, self-induced "controversies" and other hideous content. ENOUGH, stay away! |
Originally Posted by GUWonder
(Post 31313441)
His blog entry update on the CMB-KLIA flight now basically acknowledges this was done as a form of click-bait: “Instead, I treated the incident as a spectator sport. Some of you criticized my anger, but trust me…I wasn’t angry at all. I was highly amused, noting at the very outset that this was going to be a great story to draw traffic into the blog. Indeed it was. And perhaps that is even worse than anger…” If he calls for “the rod of correction” to hit a child when not angry, what kind of violence would be called for when he is angry? I'd hate to be his child, too. |
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