People want to be able to go out into the world without being filmed. That was the case for thousands of years. It is not unreasonable to expect limits on recording in public.
Now one of the worst organizations on earth (meta) wants to record everyone and everything for their private benefit. People are mad.
It’s extremely difficult to draw a line, though. To determine where to draw that line. Freedom of the press is important, don’t you agree? Well, what do we consider legitimate journalistic purposes? I do not think the government should draw a line at all on this. Filming could be part of a journalistic effort. Or not. The government can’t determine that. And until there’s a foolproof way to filter out ‘bad actor’ filming and ‘good’ filming, it will be very much slippery slope territory to impose any restrictions on filming in public whatsoever.
Something being legal doesn’t make it good.
People want to be able to go out into the world without being filmed. That was the case for thousands of years. It is not unreasonable to expect limits on recording in public.
Now one of the worst organizations on earth (meta) wants to record everyone and everything for their private benefit. People are mad.
It’s extremely difficult to draw a line, though. To determine where to draw that line. Freedom of the press is important, don’t you agree? Well, what do we consider legitimate journalistic purposes? I do not think the government should draw a line at all on this. Filming could be part of a journalistic effort. Or not. The government can’t determine that. And until there’s a foolproof way to filter out ‘bad actor’ filming and ‘good’ filming, it will be very much slippery slope territory to impose any restrictions on filming in public whatsoever.