I think it was ‘legal’.
People need to learn how to govern themselves... their mouths, their actions, everything!!
A sense of personal responsibility MUST be taught to young people.
The problems we endure now, are much the result of people (adults too) behaving irresponsibly
People have a right to say anything they damn well please especially in private and it is none of your business.
The statute applies to "confidential communications" -- i.e., conversations in which one of the parties has an objectively reasonable expectation that no one is listening in or overhearing the conversation.On the other hand, if Sterling consented to being recorded, then he consented, and the statute precludes charging the person who made the recording, for recording it.
From the statute:
(c) The term "confidential communication" includes any communication carried on in circumstances as may reasonably indicate that any party to the communication desires it to be confined to the parties thereto ...I imagine there is a fine line between "knowing" and "consenting," but the two notions aren't precisely the same.
In California, if he didn’t know he was being recorded, then the recording is illegal. Full stop.
Who governs what’s appropriate? Free speech isn’t necessarily pretty, but its free.
You want to trade privacy and rights for security and good manners, may your shackles rest lightly upon you.
Like in the soviet and e germany