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Why would they be trolling him? They're asking for the basic courtesy of not having their faces shown online, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me. It seems like

Why would they be trolling him? They're asking for the basic courtesy of not having their faces shown online, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me. It seems like the pianist is the one who wanted to pick a fight: instead of getting the cameraperson to point away from them and explaining the situation politely, he went on a rant on how they're not in "communist" China, and it's a free country. In general, the whole approach towards them seems sketchy. Earlier in the video he calls it a group of Japanese people, despite them clearly having Chinese flags, and he asks them if they can dance. That's a bit weird, isn't it?

andsoitis 3y ago
> Why would they be trolling him? They're asking for the basic courtesy of not having their faces shown online, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me. It seems like the pianist is the one who wanted to pick a fight: instead of getting the cameraperson to point away from them This is a huge public area with lots of empty space (I looked at the video). When I see people recording themselves in public and I think I might be in the picture, I get out of the frame (or turn my back), rather than go up to them and insist "don't post any video that shows my face". Yes, he engaged them on principle - I agree with his principles, but he should have just ignored the people antagonizing him. And they have not heard of the Streissand effect.
- foverzar 3y ago
  > Streissand effect If truly understood their sentiment, it's probably way less uncomfortable to be published actively protesting the use of your image.
- g-b-r 3y ago
  With smartphones though it's often easy to not notice that someone is filming
Shaolol 3y ago
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gigi207 3y ago
In the beginning, as you reference, Brendan Kavanaugh was talking with a friend of his who is producing video with a group of Japanese people (I think they were news people). There was some confusion about whether the red-scarf group was Japanese or Chinese initially, due to the fact Brendan had just been talking about the Japanese group. He was corrected, all was fine, he was greeted and shook hands with one of the Chinese women, and then a Chinese man played the piano (only one piece - and NOTE they never asked if they could use the piano for a longer time to film their piece for "Chinese TV".) The Chinese (several of whom were living in the UK/or are a British citizen) did try to explain they owned the rights to their own images, and could he delete/not film them? Brendan asked a lot of questions for clarification - and I felt he was purposely being dense - didn't give an inch. And that was his right. **By the way, Brendan did not rant. He asked. The Shouty Guy knew he couldn't win so he went to Plan B - His tactics: to make a scene, shout, intimidate, make false accusations, play the victim, etc. It still isn't clear if the primary woman saying loudly, "Don't shoot! Don't shoot him!" meant there was a weapon or if she meant camera/shoot.

andsoitis 3y ago

> Why would they be trolling him? They're asking for the basic courtesy of not having their faces shown online, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me. It seems like the pianist is the one who wanted to pick a fight: instead of getting the cameraperson to point away from them This is a huge public area with lots of empty space (I looked at the video). When I see people recording themselves in public and I think I might be in the picture, I get out of the frame (or turn my back), rather than go up to them and insist "don't post any video that shows my face". Yes, he engaged them on principle - I agree with his principles, but he should have just ignored the people antagonizing him. And they have not heard of the Streissand effect.

foverzar 3y ago
> Streissand effect If truly understood their sentiment, it's probably way less uncomfortable to be published actively protesting the use of your image.
g-b-r 3y ago
With smartphones though it's often easy to not notice that someone is filming

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gigi207 3y ago

In the beginning, as you reference, Brendan Kavanaugh was talking with a friend of his who is producing video with a group of Japanese people (I think they were news people). There was some confusion about whether the red-scarf group was Japanese or Chinese initially, due to the fact Brendan had just been talking about the Japanese group. He was corrected, all was fine, he was greeted and shook hands with one of the Chinese women, and then a Chinese man played the piano (only one piece - and NOTE they never asked if they could use the piano for a longer time to film their piece for "Chinese TV".) The Chinese (several of whom were living in the UK/or are a British citizen) did try to explain they owned the rights to their own images, and could he delete/not film them? Brendan asked a lot of questions for clarification - and I felt he was purposely being dense - didn't give an inch. And that was his right. **By the way, Brendan did not rant. He asked. The Shouty Guy knew he couldn't win so he went to Plan B - His tactics: to make a scene, shout, intimidate, make false accusations, play the victim, etc. It still isn't clear if the primary woman saying loudly, "Don't shoot! Don't shoot him!" meant there was a weapon or if she meant camera/shoot.