Comments on: Google CEO talks new media politics

At Personal Democracy Forum, Eric Schmidt warns that always-on nature of camera phone-wielding generation means politicians should be more careful.

[TV James]

Be careful? Nah.

They shouldn't be careful, they should start being honest, representative and above board.

Recording devices shouldn't scare politicians into censoring themselves, they should compel politicians to finally do what they were elected to do. Represent us and our best interests and make the city, state, country and world a better place.

[socal_beachbum]

the pols will become overly cautious

the danger here is that as we become a society of citizen-photojournalists, politicians will simply stop saying anything of value outside of their standard stump speeches and talking points.

of course some do this already, but this trend schmidt and friedman are talking about could seriously put a damper on what all pols feel they can say publicly.

[stevew928--2008]

What? Be Responsible???

Maybe it is time people begin to realize that EVERY action has
consequences, and to be responsible. I don't WANT a politician
(or anyone else) who would look any different in front of the
press than they would appear on that camera phone. And, while
I realize that some amount of maturity and thinking through our
actions come with age... too many young people seem to want
no responsibility for what they do before 21... which just isn't
reality. Sorry, time for everyone to start taking a bit more
responsibility for their actions. If you are a good honest person,
this should be refreshing, not scary.
-Steve

[chuchucuhi]

everyone

I think it is something that can affect us all. I'm sure as someone snaps a photo of you and you joke that it's a blackmail photo and then they upload it somewhere it will be found. I'm also sure photos will be able to be indexed by person and you can "Google" yourself and see everything you've posted and find images of yourself or those who look like you and then no one has a job.

[kael10]

Mr. Schmidt owes his success largely to a global network of mobster fiends is what I hear from rival mafia. They say it was him that was directly responsible for the colosal profits made from promoting child pornography with the Google search engine.
http://endmafia.com
http://cid-21ccdb1c1e0c985a.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!21CCDB1C1E0C985A!130.entry

[geo11101]

Eric Schmidt is the biggest Mafia puppet in the US. He is bad news for apple users. http://endmafia.com