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| Originally Posted by yellowduke I don't condone the actions of the man taking pictures of the scene with his phone but i have to defend photography. What many are advocating here is tantamount to censorship and a further erosion of civil liberties. Photographers are already viewed as potential terrorists by many security guards and police around city centres. Photography has an important role to play in recording events for posterity as well as informing us about the present.
Jim |
Too true - have you seen the new Met Police poster?
London cops declare war on photography - Boing Boing
There is already a backlash version - 'Thousands of people take photographs. Some of them are brown. Please don't shoot them.'
I thought that were were not supposed to let fundamentalism bring us down. That we should not change the way we live....
Adrian
PS Apparently people with 2 mobile phones are now suspects as that is terrorist behaviour.