Re:Stop Filming Strangers in 2023
by lr4444lr on Sunday January 08, 2023 @06:36PM
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They're sticking objects into your personal space without consent, possibly constituting harassment or invasion of privacy/eavesdropping in some jurisdictions. I highly doubt the court costs for 99% of their sweatshop-made electronics are worth the hassle, including convincing a jury. I'm not saying you should grab their stuff and stomp it into the dirt, but a swat isn't gonna hurt these clowns.
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> They're sticking objects into your personal space without consent, possibly constituting harassment or invasion of privacy/eavesdropping in some jurisdictions
You don’t watch the news much do you? This is the MO of reporters at every news agency chasing a soundbyte. Nothing illegal in the slightest.
Re:Stop Filming Strangers in 2023
by Dudeman112 on Monday January 09, 2023 @10:51AM
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I would imagine most jurisdictions have specific laws that apply to journalism and don't apply to regular people?
Journalists are regular people - any gatekeeping would be a massive regression in freedom of the press
A person who approaches you and asks you a question — camera or no — is not deserving of assault.
Assault, camera or no, is deserving of a self-defense response. What if was a knife or gun, not a camera? They look similar. I'm not going to wait until I'm bleeding out to find out.
Are you a cop?
What camera do you use that looks like a gun?
> they look similar
Insofar as they’re both…objects?
They don't need to. While it's unlikely to happen to you, people have in fact been assassinated by others who they believed to be a regular camera crew:
https://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/10/06/bindra....
Generally true. But if you decline to engage and they force their company upon you, their behavior becomes unwelcome, and the longer they persist in it the more aggressive their unwillingness to leave you alone becomes.
https://ambientlight.ca/laws/the-laws/provincial-law/quebec/...
In Quebec, your image is yours.