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> Clearly, one should be able to exist in society, including going outside one’s own home, without needing to accept this kind of thing. This is not clear at a
by paulcole 1y ago
> Clearly, one should be able to exist in society, including going outside one’s own home, without needing to accept this kind of thing.
This is not clear at all to me.
When you go into public you’re accepting that you might be filmed. The reality is that you are being filmed constantly. It’s just that it bothers you sometimes.
It reminds me of The Light of Other Days (a book about a society where technology makes any privacy impossible). Nearly everybody gets over it really quick and the world moves on.
The good news about this is that hardly any normal person would ever watch these Airsoft videos for more than 5 or 10 seconds.
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- cowpig 1y ago> Nearly everybody gets over it really quick and the world moves on. Perhaps this article being #1 on HN right now is evidence that your perspective is not the same as "nearly everybody" else
- op00to 1y agoThe evidence I present is that I have never seen someone complain about someone else filming in public. I’m not sure that the articles position on HN says anything about the majority opinion on a topic, only that it’s of interest.
- cthor 1y agoYou must not have looked very far. Here's one example from circa 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN9E3vJzxk0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN9E3vJzxk0 People respond to a camera shoved in their face. It's not felt the same as simply being looked at.
- op00to 1y agoI have practiced "street photography" for years, where I purposefully take pictures of people on the street. Sometimes people ask what I'm doing, I tell them, and they say "cool can I see the pictures"? Sometimes I send them a file or whatever. No one's gotten all out of sorts over it.
- paulcole 1y agoTo be fair the sentence prior I thought made clear I was referencing the plot of the book.
- detaro 1y agoSo you only have to worry about consequences from not-normal people, and that's the good news? EDIT: to bring a specific real-world example: A friend of mine does classes at a local studio that also offers martial arts courses, and some of the local right-wing bubble has gotten it in their head that this has to be "antifa combat training" and keeps screaming that this needs to be monitored. The current local government has been ignoring them, but a lot of people are probably quite happy now that there isn't an easy-to-get public record of who was there and "needs a visit".
- paulcole 1y agoNo, you only have to worry about the consequences from everyone. You certainly dont want the government defining “not normal” people. Or maybe you do!