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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see our weekly "someone is filming you" thread is back. [/quote]

Nice way to dismiss, or even normalize, the idea that people filming other people in public is worth merely a shrug.

Don't pull out the "But it's not illegal" card. Just because something is not illegal does not mean it's fine to do, or that the subject of the "it's not illegal" filming should just suck it up and be OK with it.[/quote]

NP here but you need to calm down the hysterics. It is legal. Think about the other side of the issue. Lots of those horribly behaved racist people were filmed and that isn't a bad thing. Many of them thought like you and demanded people erase video or assaulted people filming them. Guess who was arrested?

Frankly I would have filmed the guys back and  let them know I would post their creepy behavior on social media. [/quote]

Where did I say we needed to stop all filming? I didn't. I said that it's wrong to dismiss filming of unwilling participants as OK. Not the same thing. Yes, it's legal; that does not make it any less invasive, creepy and inappropriate. Many actions which are invasive, creepy and inappropriate are still technically not breaking the law. Or is that just "hysterics"?

"It's legal" is a VERY low bar for behavior. You're fine with shrugging and saying nothing because "it's legal"? The barista was right to intervene and the young woman was right to be creeped out. The police could have done nothing because it's legal, of course, but that does not mean that people being filmed or those who know the situation is clearly skeevy should just stand there and say, oh well, it's legal, so I won't say a thing. Sure, I agree that filming the pervs is a good idea, but an upset person who feels threatened in the moment might not think of that.

Comparing this situation to the filming of "those horribly behaved racist people" (you mean the Capitol rioter idiots) is nuts. If you can't see the difference between pervs filming a woman in a Starbucks and people filming  the obviously public events of a mass riot -- you really don't know how to think subtly. 
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