Whether I would be happy about it or not does not make it right either. My unpopular opinion is that this video is in the public interest and that matters more than whether or not the CEO of Uber is happy about it or feels like their privacy was violated.
I don't support the idea that our culture would be better off by sharing more videos of each other when we did not expect we'd be speaking to the entire world.
It's why we don't get to see Trump's or Congress' tax returns without some kind of court case.
If they're forced to do it by law, it will be forced upon you too, and boom, everyone knows all your financials.
We can decide what we want to add to our culture. Secret videos don't need to be part of it.
Another unpopular opinion here: I think people in power should be held to a higher standard than lowly peons like me.
Imagine yourself as the driver. If the video had never been published, he would never have even gotten an apology from Kalanick. I sympathise with those who don't have the kind of power that the CEO of of Uber does. He is a serf in the hellish gig economy that Kalanick has made himself a billionaire many times over. This is the most meaningful political impact he will probably ever make in his life. Kalanick, meanwhile, will probably be okay, even if this leads to a chain of events where he is fired.
I want to choose a kind of culture where the working class are not so powerless against the rich. Just because one thinks it should be the law for the president to release their tax returns, doesn't mean that they think every single person should be subject to such an invasion of privacy for no reason.
