by Alfie
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I make things on the web, mobile and in the actual world.
I've done lots of bits and bobs over the years, and right now I'm mostly working on this.
I enjoy speaking about things I like, most recently this. You can email me if you'd like, and I'm on twitter.
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Rich says:
It's worth reading the Times article quoted by the blog posting because it sounds far more like some photographers with an enormous sense of entitlement complaining about the plebs who dare to object to being used as their unpaid models. So, you're the one taking pictures of someone without their knowledge yet you invoke Orwell when someone points out that what you're doing could be seen as intrusive... How deliciously hypocritical.
"It's like 1984" is rapidly becoming the quickest way of identifying someone who doesn't know what they're talking about.
Alfie says:
That's fine Rich, but not what I'm commenting on. I'm commenting on my Government *actively* encouraging the public to take it upon themselves to decide who looks suspicious taking a photograph, and if (edit - you think) they do, report them to the poh-lice. You think people are going to make the distinction your making (quite rightly) in deciding whether someone is being suspicious in the way they are photographing something/someone? Nah, as ever, it's an excuse for cunts to be self righteous whenever they choose because their government told them to "watch out for suspicious characters".
edit - how do you think East Berlin managed to get so much information on their citizens? By giving self righteous twats the authority to tell them everything about their neighbours.
Essitam says:
I saw this a week ago and have been meaning to blog it - it's a farce,
My colleague told me he would report me,
Not for taking photos but just because I was suspicious looking ;-)
JokerXL says:
"what if one of them seems odd" ? ? ?
Target-rich environment round here then!
hehe
And, I have at least three phones on the go at any one time, I may as well go and give myself up.
Spiderbaby says:
Surely the ones to worry would be the 'normal' looking ones. You'd be a pretty rubbish terrorist if you did all your surveillance looking odd and attracting attention. Reminds me of those poor plane spotters in Greece. What a huge waste of time, these posters. Equal rights for the odd-looking!