{"id":41317,"date":"2025-07-22T13:07:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/obsessed-with-the-coldplay-kiss-cam-story-i-was-too-until-i-realised-the-sinister-truth-at-the-heart-of-it-arwa-mahdawi-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:07:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:07:53","slug":"obsessed-with-the-coldplay-kiss-cam-story-i-was-too-until-i-realised-the-sinister-truth-at-the-heart-of-it-arwa-mahdawi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/obsessed-with-the-coldplay-kiss-cam-story-i-was-too-until-i-realised-the-sinister-truth-at-the-heart-of-it-arwa-mahdawi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsessed with the Coldplay kiss cam story? I was too, until I realised the sinister truth at the heart of it | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody should expect to go to a huge concert and expect privacy, but the incident is a jarring reminder of the reach of the surveillance state and the internet\u2019s insatiable appetite for public shaming<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not a <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/us\/dictionary\/english\/curtain-twitcher\">curtain-twitcher<\/a>, OK? I\u2019m just a little bit nosy and happen to procrastinate by staring out of the window. Inspiration rarely strikes during these procrastination sessions \u2013 but I have absorbed an awful lot of information about my neighbours. \u201cGuess what,\u201d I\u2019ll say to my wife. \u201cI think the flight attendant who always puts his trash out when it\u2019s not trash day broke up with his boyfriend because I haven\u2019t seen him around lately.\u201d My wife, meanwhile, never has any idea what I\u2019m talking about and usually tells me to mind my own business.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m starting to think she has a point. In fact, we should all work a little harder at minding our own business. Because I\u2019m not the only nosy parker out there, am I? Judging by the global obsession with the Coldplay couple, we\u2019re all far too invested in other people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jul\/22\/coldplay-kiss-cam-ceo-hr-story-sinister-truth\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody should expect to go to a huge concert and expect privacy, but the incident is a jarring reminder of the reach of the surveillance state and the internet\u2019s insatiable appetite for public shaming I\u2019m not a curtain-twitcher, OK? I\u2019m just a little bit nosy and happen to procrastinate by staring out of the window. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}