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27 Sep 2016, 7:48 am

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Here is a video from the BBC today, where privacy was considered worth invading in order to demonstrate abuse of an autistic person (a pretend autistic person in this case). I am interested in hearing opinions on this invasion of privacy, (whether it is justified and why) particularly from those who thought the couple's assault on the boy in this thread was justified.

My own view is that the BBC were justified in videoing this man without his permission or knowledge.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-37456884

This story is the subject of another thread: http://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=329744

There are a couple of issues to this: the abuse, the suggestion that the abuse is a viable treatment and the subterfuge of the reporter.

I would argue that the reporter's actions were justified because of the actions of the abuser. His motivation was to stop the abuse. He still acted dishonestly, but the situation called for it. So it is not really a good comparison to the original story of this thread because the motivation of the kid was not to help others.

The attack on the kid was not justified, but it was predictable. And to not explain to him why people might be angered at his actions is doing him a disservice.

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27 Sep 2016, 11:28 am

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But that's not true. There are plenty of things that some people might want to say which the law forbids them from saying because other people do not want to hear those things being said.

There are reasonable limits on free speech, but it's one of the most protected rights in this country.

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27 Sep 2016, 11:40 am

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I certainly don't condone violence of any sort and at no point in any of my posts have I indicated otherwise. I also don't condone invasion of privacy. Maybe I'll wear a Burkha in future to prevent soul stealing.

Where was it settled in courts that photos could be taken of unwilling subjects in public places? There are quite a number of countries on this planet and the same laws don't hold sway in them all.

US Laws
http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm

UK Photography rights:
http://www.sirimo.co.uk/2009/05/14/uk-p ... rights-v2/

Australian Photography rights:
http://4020.net/words/photorights.php

Canadian Photography rights:
http://ambientlight.ca/laws/

New Zealand Photography rights:
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/P ... 006/2.html

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27 Sep 2016, 11:49 am

People should remember watching someone from a distance and taking pictures is a rather threatening behavior.

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27 Sep 2016, 11:49 am

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why are so many people downplaying the fact that the thugs trespassed on the private property of the autistic family? that the thugs reached into the autistic family's car and committed violence? the majority of the fault lies with the thugs.

Some of us are more interested in understanding the motivations of others than simply condemning them; for example, I don't condone getting in a physical fight over someone stealing a parking space, but I understand how it could happen, that's a truly infuriating thing to do, despite being 100% legal, and not everyone has perfect self control. Same thing here, being photographed by a stranger in public is totally legal, but incredibly discomforting for some people, so I understand how that could lead to the photographer getting attacked. IIRC, Chris Rock did a pretty good bit about this very thing years ago, but it's too profane to post here.

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27 Sep 2016, 11:57 am

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But that's not true. There are plenty of things that some people might want to say which the law forbids them from saying because other people do not want to hear those things being said.

There are reasonable limits on free speech, but it's one of the most protected rights in this country.

Who decides what is "reasonable?" Certainly not the person who is being censured and censored. What is "reasonable" one day can suddenly become unreasonable on another. Words are simply sounds or groups of letters, of themselves they aren't good or bad. It's strange that a country that protects the rights of an individual to carry a deadly weapon will censure that same individual simply for using a word that is currently disapproved of.

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27 Sep 2016, 11:58 am

I think this is no different than trying to tease other drivers on the road or keeping them from passing or pulling a cigarette from someone's mouth or grabbing a pacifier from a older kid's mouth who is passed the diaper stage, all this can get you assaulted and attacked and for on the road it can cause road rage. Same as for tossing a drink at someone or your food or confronting people for doing something wrong such as littering or riding their bike on the sidewalk. All that can also get you assaulted too and stat a fight. So that goes for taking photos too of people without their permission. You never know what temper a person has and what problems they have.

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27 Sep 2016, 11:59 am

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Gee, that's five out of how many countries in the world?

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27 Sep 2016, 12:56 pm

Jute wrote:

AspE wrote:

Jute wrote:

But that's not true. There are plenty of things that some people might want to say which the law forbids them from saying because other people do not want to hear those things being said.

There are reasonable limits on free speech, but it's one of the most protected rights in this country.

Reasonable means that it doesn't put people in immediate physical danger or jeopardize their business with written lies.

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27 Sep 2016, 12:57 pm

Jute wrote:

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Gee, that's five out of how many countries in the world?

I don't know what you expect of me, I'm only justifying the laws in the US. I can't be responsible for the laws of other nations, but I can object to them.

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27 Sep 2016, 1:20 pm

My point is that it isn't a universal truth that people are allowed to photograph other people without their consent. It may be allowed in some countries, at present, but even there those laws could change. It may be perfectly legal to photograph strangers in public places, in the five countries that you listed, without there consent but if you took a camera to a waterpark, playground or beach and started photographing children I'm willing to bet that you'd soon find yourself under arrest. So, if you shouldn't photograph boys and girls, why is it okay to photograph men and women, without their consent, even when they expressly ask you not to?

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Reasonable means that it doesn't put people in immediate physical danger or jeopardize their business with written lies.

Does the "N" word do that? Or any of the other racial or sexually descriptive words, which were once in common usage but are now no longer allowed?

I can't even write fag-got on this website, even though it's the name of a traditional English savoury meat dish.

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27 Sep 2016, 2:00 pm

Jute wrote:

My point is that it isn't a universal truth that people are allowed to photograph other people without their consent.

I never said it was universal, in fact I explicitly noted that other countries have different laws and customs.

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It may be allowed in some countries, at present, but even there those laws could change. It may be perfectly legal to photograph strangers in public places, in the five countries that you listed, without there consent but if you took a camera to a waterpark, playground or beach and started photographing children I'm willing to bet that you'd soon find yourself under arrest. So, if you shouldn't photograph boys and girls, why is it okay to photograph men and women, without their consent, even when they expressly ask you not to?

You are actually wrong about that, it's OK to photograph children in the US. I agree that it could be rude to photograph people after them asking you not to, but that's a different argument.

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Does the "N" word do that? Or any of the other racial or sexually descriptive words, which were once in common usage but are now no longer allowed?

It's not illegal to say the N word.

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I can't even write fag-got on this website, even though it's the name of a traditional English savoury meat dish.

It's not illegal to say the F word.

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27 Sep 2016, 2:20 pm

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Reasonable means that it doesn't put people in immediate physical danger or jeopardize their business with written lies.

It is probably more you cannot call people on here fa***ts as an attempt to insult/flame them, if you're talking about a savory meat dish I am sure people wouldn't be upset about it or worry too much about censoring your post.

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27 Sep 2016, 2:37 pm

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Try typing Fag-got here without the hyphen.

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27 Sep 2016, 2:52 pm

Jute wrote:

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Try typing Fag-got here without the hyphen.

You have no particular right to post on a private forum. It's not the same thing as government censorship. Free speech is a right that can only (and for the most part not legally) infringed by a government entity.

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27 Sep 2016, 10:23 pm

if some thugs broke into my car and assaulted me despite me having done no harm to the thugs, I wouldn't give a hoot in hell WHY they did it. this country has gone to the dogs AFAIC.

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