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Re: CCP members threaten British public piano player [video]

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Post by foverzar »

Unbefleckt wrote: post #54
foverzar wrote: post #18

So, some asian-looking people asked the guy not to film them and the guy decided to be a loud dick about the whole thing, while almost assaulting one of the women. "CCP members threaten British public piano player", right. I get that some countries still don't have a legal requirement to blur people in the background (or at least when they asked you to), but this is a common courtesy and basic politeness every semi-p…

Timestamp of the almost-assault?

13:20. If I was that woman and some creepy dude was grabbing things from my hands, I'd surely kick the guy in the balls and call it self-defence.

Don't grab women.

Re: CCP members threaten British public piano player [video]

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Post by swat535 »

g-b-r wrote: post #63

The chinese guy becomes a huge moron when he claims he touched her, but the pianist is a big jerk as well. Calling "freedom" the right to film (and publish on YouTube) anyone is ludicrous (yeah I know how many Americans do that). Your freedom ends when others' freedoms begin, and if you had to assume that everything you do in public would be stored forever for the world to see your freedom just tanked.

That's already what your assumption should be.. don't go out in the public if you don't like to be filmed. We have freedom laws specifically for this so I am failing to see your point for this? Public spaces are _public_ .

Re: CCP members threaten British public piano player [video]

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Post by g-b-r »

swat535 wrote: post #72
g-b-r wrote: post #63

The chinese guy becomes a huge moron when he claims he touched her, but the pianist is a big jerk as well. Calling "freedom" the right to film (and publish on YouTube) anyone is ludicrous (yeah I know how many Americans do that). Your freedom ends when others' freedoms begin, and if you had to assume that everything you do in public would be stored forever for the world to see your freedom just tanked.

That's already what your assumption should be.. don't go out in the public if you don't like to be filmed. We have freedom laws specifically for this so I am failing to see your point for this? Public spaces are _public_ .

You fail to see how not going out in public is a reduction of freedom?

Re: CCP members threaten British public piano player [video]

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Post by foverzar »

g-b-r wrote: post #70
foverzar wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> if you film someone in public and they come up and tell you it's a problem, it's polite to not publish their likeness/delete the image That's my point, that's just basic politeness.

It's actual law to respect that demand, in many countries

I assume that's where the idea of taking a legal action comes from, but that should be irrelevant.

If someone asks you not to publish their faces, especially after you were the one to approach them first in the first place, you just do it. Period. All it takes is a single note and 30 seconds of time during editing.

Re: CCP members threaten British public piano player [video]

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Post by g-b-r »

foverzar wrote: post #69
g-b-r wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, although when the Chinese guy claims (and screams) that the pianist touched the girl he turned into a bigger dick.

Challenge of who is a bigger dick: a guy who is openly racist, makes fun of other people language skills and makes it a principle to act like a dick vs the guy who got hysterically overprotective - a challenge we truly deserve. I don't personally believe in the "bigger dick" narrative when the whole point of trolling is provoke someone to loose their cool. The piano guy spend good few minutes poking those asian peopl…

Well it's really hard to establish bigger dickness, although the Chinese was very polite the rest of the time, making up an assault case is pretty dicky (and probably criminal).

I don't know about the racism though, it's possible but he might simply not like the Chinese government and political system (and assume that waving a Chinese flag means supporting it, which was probably the case).

Re: CCP members threaten British public piano player [video]

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Post by mmh0000 »

g-b-r wrote: post #73
swat535 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's already what your assumption should be.. don't go out in the public if you don't like to be filmed. We have freedom laws specifically for this so I am failing to see your point for this? Public spaces are _public_ .

You fail to see how not going out in public is a reduction of freedom?

How do you feel about all the surveillance cameras permeating society?

Re: CCP members threaten British public piano player [video]

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Post by incomingpain »

cassianoleal wrote: post #5

The title of the video is "Police Called To Stop Filming During Piano Livestream". There are no indications that the people who (very wrongfully) approached them are members of the CCP. They may well be but there's nothing in the video supporting that.

I'll let you in on it. The probably fake police officer isn't why it's going viral.

I've watched him for years, he's always pulling hilarious stunts, plus the music is awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH6-PVn8HVE

The reason he's going viral is that those were high ranking CCP, lets say alleged intelligence operatives, operating in the UK. I don't think he knew it at the time of uploading the video.

Re: CCP members threaten British public piano player [video]

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Post by g-b-r »

foverzar wrote: post #74
g-b-r wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's actual law to respect that demand, in many countries

I assume that's where the idea of taking a legal action comes from, but that should be irrelevant. If someone asks you not to publish their faces, especially after you were the one to approach them first in the first place, you just do it. Period. All it takes is a single note and 30 seconds of time during editing.

Well of course

But the pianist is probably deep into "free speech", "auditor" and generally right-wing bs

Re: CCP members threaten British public piano player [video]

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Post by rainbowzootsuit »

rdtsc wrote: post #11

The "stop touching her" part was interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65iwnI2hjAA&t=791s One member of the group of waving the Chinese flag in Brendan's direction. He seems to have touched the flag or put his hand forward to touch the flag. The man with the group starting yelling very loudly "stop touching her". But it wasn't a desperate cry for help, it was very deliberate and forced in a way. He realized all…

"He's coming right for us!"

Re: CCP members threaten British public piano player [video]

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Post by g-b-r »

mmh0000 wrote: post #76
g-b-r wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You fail to see how not going out in public is a reduction of freedom?

How do you feel about all the surveillance cameras permeating society?

Extremely bad

Were you born after they spread, by any chance?

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