It shouldn't matter; public is public, private is private. If you're in public, you don't get to decide what is done with recordings of you in public. It's part

It shouldn't matter; public is public, private is private. If you're in public, you don't get to decide what is done with recordings of you in public. It's part of the price you pay for civilization. This means you have to behave in public in a way you might not behave in private. The problem we have is not that people are posting recordings made in public, it's that social media platforms are incentivizing the exploitation of those recordings, surfacing them in ways that maximize engagement, such that it's usually some of the worst moments of a person's life being broadcast to the world just so that some people can materialize some pennies. Maybe we should regulate adtech and enforce existing privacy norms, and if we don't have incentives that normalize exploitative recording in public, maybe we can normalize a sense of shame and decorum around public recording. You can't legislate or regulate public recording beyond where it's at, because the enforcement of it eliminates an immensely valuable governmental and social tool of accountability. Free press and journalism matter a helluva lot more than comfort in public. You can legislate and regulate better adtech and social media platform laws, and there are a million other reasons this must be done. If it weren't for the fact that all the politicians are funded by the companies dependent on the adtech situation staying the way it is, or even getting worse.