Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?

neilzone.co.uk

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

331–340 of 767 posts

Re: What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?

#331

Post by detaro »

OJFord wrote: post #330
weinzierl wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is primarily a cultural one. You won't find many countries with the "well, if you don’t want to be in photos published online, don’t be in public spaces" opinion outside the anglo-saxon world. The UK is a special place because culturally it belongs to the anglo-saxon sphere but legally it inherited the strict EU personality rights.

> The UK is a special place because culturally it belongs to the anglo-saxon sphere I hear US culture is fairly dominant in the USA, too?

you should read the entire sentence before replying

Re: What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?

#332

Post by GJim »

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #214
RajT88 wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree. I went to a family gathering recently, and my wife's cousin was walking around live streaming. People were pissed once they figured out that private conversations were uploading live to the internet. The same guy did similar when his mom was on her death bed. Jesus Christ.

> People were pissed once they figured out that private conversations were uploading love to the internet. Audio is different from video. This is technically illegal, as consent is explicitly required in the law for audio recording.

What in gods name does the law have to do with it?

Re: What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?

#333

Post by crazygringo »

footy wrote: post #302
insertchatbot wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And also, some people could suffer real damages. Imagine if someone is lying to their wife about what they do on the weekend or about who they've gone to a conference with. Or imagine if someone has found themselves with dangerous enemies who discover where they go, what they do and with whom. At the moment, these things are not the problem of the person taking the video

right. My younger sister was stalked by a crazy ex for years. According to some of the people here that would mean she had no right to participate in a regular activity.

No. It means you get a restraining order if there's a threat and contact the police the moment they violate it. We already have laws for that type of thing.

Preventing anyone ever possibly taking pictures where you could be in the background is not the answer.

Re: What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?

#334

Post by _kidlike »

Gigachad wrote: post #51
eterm wrote: post #29

I wonder if it's a generational or cultural difference present in the comments here. I am sympathetic to the author, and I also find video a bit invasive of privacy in a way that photos aren't. I therefore find the (obviously common) attitude that videos are just "something you need to accept" quite alien, but I wonder how much of that attitude is just comments coming from a younger generation that have grown up with…

I’m Gen Z and I get how someone could be annoyed by this, but it’s also just part of life. I get annoyed when people smoke in public or pointlessly honk horns at night. But you have to accept that being around other people means some people do things you aren’t a fan of.

your way of thinking shows clearly your lack of comprehension on the subject... you didn't experience the world before the internet, so you think that the internet is "part of life". Let me tell you as someone that helped build it, that it isn't part of life. It's something that we made up, like our ancestors build the railways. Those were neither part of life. Unike the addiction to social media that was carefully engineered by top class psychologists, without anyone realizing. That shouldn't be part of life, but here we are :(

Re: What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?

#336

Post by hk1337 »

There's several caveats to this but generally it seems silly to me to worry about people posting pictures with you in it. It seems a bit selfish to me to be concerned about "your image" being out in public instead of living in the moment.

I think though, with the internet and social media came 2-3 generations that really wanted to share what was going on in their lives with other people and with that came harsh resistance to even being in the background of someone's picture.

I thought this post was going to be about not wanting to share their hobby in a blog, pictures, or video form. This is something I have struggled with, because I would like to get started with blogging and a podcast but I have held back because a lot of people are so mean and harsh with their replies and I tend to take things so personally that it really hurts and keeps me from doing it.

Re: What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?

#337

Post by frantathefranta »

zokier wrote: post #113

It is funny how insular and US centric many of the comments here are. In fact many countries do have legislation requiring consent in many scenarios for photographing or publishing photos. And it turns out that it is not actually very problematic. Wikimedia has some examples, but I'm sure it is not comprehensive: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Country_specific_...

1. The author of the article is in the UK

2. Recording people without their consent still happens in lot of other countries other than the US. I bet I'm in tons of YouTube videos showing skiing in the Alps.

Re: What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?

#338

Post by GJim »

physicsguy wrote: post #286
gms7777 wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m currently wedding planning and regularly visit a wedding planning forum. I was left flabbergasted the other day when someone posted if it would be ok to ask guests to not post pictures of the couple on social media. They’re ok with guests posting pictures of themselves or of the venue and decor, they just don’t really want pictures of the bride and groom. The response ranged from “you can ask but you can’t preven…

This gets asked at basically every wedding I've been to in the UK i.e. there is a professional photographer, please don't take photos of the bride and groom in the church and it still gets ignored. At my own wedding, one of the guests (not even someone invited to the whole day, just a neighbour of my wife's parents who knew her growing up) is leaning out of the aisle with their phone taking photos ruining a load of p…

> please don't take photos of the bride and groom in the church and it still gets ignored

Counterpoint

I've never known such requests be ignored here in Blighty. Ditto requests not to upload photos to social media.

Re: What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?

#340

Post by crazygringo »

hedora wrote: post #319
Tade0 wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's also the option of having a detailed image of a penis on your clothing so that any sort of social media app will R-rate a video featuring you.

I wonder if this works if you use pictures of Disney characters instead (to generate copyright strikes, or mandatory relicensing fees). If the two tactics don’t work separately, would they work when combined?

Of course it doesn't.

There aren't any social media sites that take down images of people wearing a Disney character on a shirt. That's not a thing.

You have to upload actual extended direct footage of a Disney movie.

Post reply on HN