Did Weiner seriously think he'd have privacy on the Internet?

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Excerpt Eugene Robinson washingtonpost.com

Do you really want Mark Zuckerberg to have intimate pictures of your body parts? Really?

And finally — remember, we’re still just talking practicalities — Weiner ignored the fact that a person known only as a “friend” on Facebook, or someone to “follow” on Twitter, is still basically a stranger. Yes, it’s possible to learn much about a person through a relationship conducted entirely in cyberspace — much, but not enough.

Let me propose a general rule: If you exchange explicit Internet messages with a porn star, as Weiner allegedly did, you’re eventually going to be the subject of a news conference called by Gloria Allred.

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