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Re:Ask HN: What happened to surveillance camera guy? by raxxorrax on Thursday March 24, 2022 @08:01AM (#30788664)
It just shows how people have no idea about how transparent they have become. A private guy filming you is so trivial and insignificant compared to surveillance capitalism, it shouldn't even get a mention.
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Re:Ask HN: What happened to surveillance camera guy? by ggm on Thursday March 24, 2022 @08:34AM (#30788884)
Except its been shared widely. Its not his home movie shown to ten people, its privacy breach (I understand thats at best a hypothetical motivation not a law) with thousands, or millions of viewers.

Scale is sometimes enough to make the mundane terrible. Hence memes.

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Re:Ask HN: What happened to surveillance camera guy? by raxxorrax on Thursday March 24, 2022 @08:42AM (#30788962)
True, in this case it is an exception of course. Although in times of social media an audience is easy to be found. Memes are the opium of the people or something like that.
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Re:Ask HN: What happened to surveillance camera guy? by ggm on Thursday March 24, 2022 @06:40PM (#30796332)
I think opium is the opium of the people. But I do think "laughing at strangers" has persisted a long time in our culture. Millenia. Romans laughing at Braes (trousers) on Gauls...
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