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Date: 29 Mar 2007 11:16 am (UTC)That's nonsense. Joining in the conversation of random strangers on the street is not, and has never been, acceptable social behavior. In terms of electronic conversation, when phones used to be on party lines and ten houses in a neighborhood shared one phone number, it was understood that people might listen in on conversations that they weren't involved in, but that doesn't mean that (a) they had some sort of moral right to do it, (b) the people they were listening in on had to be happy about it, or (c) that it wasn't rude, creepy behavior.
People often confuse having the power to do something with having the right to do it. Yes, anyone has the power to respond to a public post. I have the power to some random person walking by me in the hall at work that pink makes her look like a drunken elephant. Do I have the right to do it, or to join in other people's conversations in the restaurant, or to walk up to people in the street and give them my thoughts on yaoi? Not under any social contract I am now or have ever been aware of, no.