I don’t know how to feel about this. It’s stupid. Because of the injunction I spent a minute figuring out who it was. But the fact is if it weren’t for the injunction I would have heard about it anyway. I’d have seen it over someone’s shoulder on the subway or it would have been on someone’s news feed or trending on twitter, or even on the CBC front page (maybe in some once-removed format like an editorial about the privacy questions raised by celebrity sex scandals with a big picture of Elton John).
Fame is kind of antithetical to privacy. It’s a real cost paid by the famous. That’s not an injustice I’m up in arms about, though.
