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Re:New Arizona law makes it illegal to film within 8 feet of... by codegeek on Sunday July 10, 2022 @02:11PM (#32047258)
You are missing the point. A law like this gives Bad Cops the power to basically stop anyone from recording. All they have to do is to walk towards that person and reduce the distance. Good cops will ignore but the Shitty ones that are on a Powertrip will absolutely abuse this. THe point is that there already are laws related to interfering with Police business and this was not needed. This is nothing but an attempt at violating a Citizen's right. Btw, there is nothing illegal about being a hero/idiot to get internet points. As much as some people are idiots, their rights should not be infringed upon if they are not interfering with Police business directly. This law makes it a lot harder to even risk recording at all because you never know if you are safe to do so.
Re:New Arizona law makes it illegal to film within 8 feet of... by brailsafe on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @06:26AM (#32067869)
Ya I get it, but by acting against hypothetically bad intentions pre-emptively, it creates a terrible loop that we probably shouldn't embrace. I believe there are bad cops, but I don't presume cops are bad and have no reason to. Maybe some people do, maybe a lot of people do, but not me.

We also don't want to make many other laws with this line of reasoning. That's how we lose rights