Gottfried's "mistake," if you want to call it that, was to tell his vile and timely jokes in a venue that he thought was as safe as a dinner party with a friend. Before posting, Gottfried must have thought, Who but a lover of daring comedy would follow me on Twitter?But he was wrong. The new rules have made everybody—including edgy comedians—accountable in the public sphere for the things they says "privately" in social media spaces. (See also the school teacher who gets fired because somebody finds a Facebook page of her chugging from a bottle of vodka.)
Again, I find that the very function of Blurter means that this is going to happen every single time anything tragedy happens. It's only human nature - people wanna comment on big events, and the utile ease and accessibility of Blurter make it incredibly difficult to NOT say something, and, since they're only human, the odds of 100% of people out there saying the right thing is low. Hell, whenever I come upon someone who's just gotten bad news I'm horrified, because I assume that if I open my mouth, I'm going to say something horribly inappropriate. As they tell me what happened, I nod my head while thinking don'tsayanything,idiotdon'tsayanything,idiotdon'tsayanything,idiotdon'tsayanything,idiot. I can only imagine if what I did blurt out like a fucking retard was heard not only by the person I'm with, but millions of onlookers.
More importantly, from a humanitarian aspect the teacher drinking vodka line above gives me an excuse to post "Vodka or Juice," in case you didn't catch it the previous 22,922 times I've posted it :)
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