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Willibe, I have an example of "public" vs "PUBLIC" when it comes to saying what you want with less consequences vs. more. It comes down to audience. (Edited for brevity.)
It's been long since lost in the flow of the discussion, but yeah, I agree. There is public and there is PUBLIC. What I'm suggesting (or thought I was suggesting) is that the speaker/poster bears the same responsibility and ownership for/of their words, regardless of what size of "public" they put them out to.
That the posters in the OP did or did not consider how "public" their postings (were) may be debated -- their awareness of how Twitter and Facebook works, how they thought their settings were configured, etc., but they still bear the responsibility for them, just as they would if they had written them in a note, passed it to a buddy, and someone else found it and taped it on bulletin board. The degrees of damage may change, the responsibility for the words themselves would not.
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