Running around littering the forest with plastic, and he is concerned about his privacy. This is the state of modern man.
What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?
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#452He acknowledges the issue in the article, but doesn’t seem to grasp it fully. Public means not private. What you do in public is not private. In presumptive free societies, when in public, one is allowed to notice what others are doing in public. Secret is the opposite of public. The paranoia around being seen feels a lot like the other reptile-brain based phobias like fear of poisoning with vaccines.
Any chance you're relatively young? I've noticed that folks born after some point in the early 2000's tend to feel this way, and they don't even realize that the survellience in 1984 was meant to be problematic, or why it might feel that way to others It seems that the panopticon has been normalized successfully.
Old. If I don't want to be seen somewhere, I either: don't go there, or sneak. If I sneak and get caught, I should've snuck better.
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#453I relate some to the premise but for an entirely different reason than privacy.
Simply one of my less common hobbies has an incredibly high hit rate of gimmick social media accounts stealing videos for their own profit, with zero credit, while highly misrepresenting things. A problem not nearly unique to the hobby nor any one type of media, but a problem plaguing it nonetheless.
Its basically pushed an already obscure hobby even more so.
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#454I get it, but the alternative is what? Get model release forms from anyone in a public space every time you turn your video camera on? Who's to say how much of you I have in the shot? Do you feature? Did you flash by? Are you blurred? Recognisable? I was shooting video of a car park exit last year. (I was trying to prove to the shopping centre owners that it was dangerous.) Mundane footage. Some lady drives out in he…
Part of the issue is, big portion of the footage being recorded, is not worth recording, let alone publishing. (Except for personal value of the person recording, but that doesn't require public sharing) With the OP example, people getting recorded are not bystanders catching stray camera focus, they are the subject of the video. Without other participants, there would be little 'content'. Imagine going to an indoor…
“How To With John Wilson” is an entire genre of precisely this.
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#455Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Weddings held in churches have been public with nobody turned away at the door. Most ordinary weddings *are* invitation only in Blighty. Both church weddings and secular weddings held at registry offices, town halls and the like.
You may need to define your terms more precisely. By “Blighty” are you referring to Great Britain, or a town in NSW, population 326? That seems to be a vast difference! And I am at a loss to imagine security guards checking invitations at a church door and giving heave-ho to the unworthy. What particular denominations have you polled on this? How many different types of ceremonies have you crashed?
It’s a 326 to 60,000,000 chance they are referring to NSW.
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#456Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since you're allergic to peanuts that means everybody should be banned from eating peanuts and we should stop growing them, right? While directly providing said stalker with information seems like a harmful, and likely prosecutable behavior, the indirect providing of information is not a burden the general public should bear for another parties already illegal actions.
> Since you're allergic to peanuts that means everybody should be banned from eating peanuts and we should stop growing them, right? My kid's school strictly bans peanut products due to at least one kid having a severe and potentially deadly allergy. It seems like a reasonable and necessary precautions to avoid harm or injury.
Which likely increases the risk of more people getting peanut allergies.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/introducing-pe...
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#457Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is one of the weirdest takes I have ever heard.
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Wedding photographers often ask people to refrain from taking photos during the ceremony. It sucks to have every photo that you hired a professional to take have a sea of people holding up cell phones so they can each take their own photo. In this case it's not rude to request that people not take images, it's a practical matter so people can have photos of their wedding instead of photos of people taking photos of their wedding. Much of this wouldn't be necessary if people could just be present at events instead of rigorously chronicling their every experience.
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#459Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is not a generational thing at all. There were plenty of TV shows centred around candid camera / security camera / home video footage back in the 1980s/1990s well before digital cameras or the internet was ubiquitous.
Watch any home VHS video from the 80s. Half the people the person holding the camera points it at say "stop filming me" There's just always been people uncomfortable with it.
> Watch any home VHS video from the 80s. Half the people the person holding the camera points it at say "stop filming me"
I suspect a lot of that is more to do with them being worried about their how they look on the film than actually being on the film itself.
> There's just always been people uncomfortable with it.
Of course there are going to be people uncomfortable with it. I am. The issue is that it isn't ever going to go backwards and being video recorded in public by amateurs has been around for almost 40 years. The ship has sailed a long time ago.
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#460I get it, but the alternative is what? Get model release forms from anyone in a public space every time you turn your video camera on? Who's to say how much of you I have in the shot? Do you feature? Did you flash by? Are you blurred? Recognisable? I was shooting video of a car park exit last year. (I was trying to prove to the shopping centre owners that it was dangerous.) Mundane footage. Some lady drives out in he…
Basic human decency. Just as the author says: “Publishing someone’s photo online, without their consent, without another strong justification, just because they happen to be in view of one’s camera lens, feels wrong to me.” It doesn’t fall to the legal level, but a social rules level. People who obnoxiously recording people in public, even if 100% legal, and disregard the wishes and conform of others around them dese…
> Basic human decency.
While I think we all agree that this is crucially important, for many of us the affront to decency is not the capture of photons that have previously bounced off someone's skin, but the very idea that that person has a claim to those photons in perpetuity.
I think it's indecent to suggest that someone needs to avert their gaze (or in this case, their CMOS sensor) because I happen to be in the area.