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Also the government only needs to levy a 1000 USD fine on a few people in order to stop a lot of this because the American press will seize on it immediately.
At first they were just shitting up the Web - now it's the real world too :( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
This isn't even remotely comparable to the tragedy of nature being so carelessly trashed.
This quote from the article baffles me: > The good instagrammers try to show different ways of enjoying nature. We don't tag places that are off the beaten path that we want to protect as long as possible. Some places have become "insta-famous" without ever mentioning where they are but eventually they become known to everyone. Wait, what? So you take a picture. Put it on instagram (because you are an 'instagrammer')…
That's very condescending of you. Lots of people like having real visual memories of places they've been.
“The relatively new trouble with mass society is perhaps even more serious, but not because of the masses themselves, but because this society is essentially a consumers’ society where leisure time is used no longer for self-perfection or acquisition of more social status, but for more and more consumption and more and more entertainment… To believe that such a society will become more “cultured” as time goes on and…
Easy: Hand every tourist a brochure about the Do's and Dont's. Aka, like Singapore prints warnings (DEATH TO DRUG TRAFFICKERS) on their landing cards. If laws and rules are disrespected fine the sweet bejeezus out of those assholes (like in the thousands of $ range) and ban them from the country (or ideally, from the Schengen room) for 5 to 10 years. The problem will solve itself in short time.
Love the idea. One improvement: let's make this an international effort and ban them from travel to any other participating country as well.
I think hitting them with fines or paying damages is a different matter and might just be enough. Banning someone from half a continent is certainly a knee jerk reaction.
Impossible punishments also have some side effects. Even law abiding tourists start avoiding the country completely if they know a mistake lands them on the ban list for half a continent. And perhaps worse, if one makes a mistake they no longer have anything to lose by doing it again until they leave the country, they're facing the ban anyway. See the 3-strikes law [1] where the third strike is almost always murder because by then the culprit knows they'll do life anyway. The deterrent is gone.
This quote from the article baffles me: > The good instagrammers try to show different ways of enjoying nature. We don't tag places that are off the beaten path that we want to protect as long as possible. Some places have become "insta-famous" without ever mentioning where they are but eventually they become known to everyone. Wait, what? So you take a picture. Put it on instagram (because you are an 'instagrammer')…
When an instagrammer dies, where go all the likes and the pictures? At least, with paper-printed photos, you have|had material stuff to inherit with some context and history.
The Internet Archive, of course.
Guaranteed to stop bad behavior.
This quote from the article baffles me: > The good instagrammers try to show different ways of enjoying nature. We don't tag places that are off the beaten path that we want to protect as long as possible. Some places have become "insta-famous" without ever mentioning where they are but eventually they become known to everyone. Wait, what? So you take a picture. Put it on instagram (because you are an 'instagrammer')…