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what is it with the brits and DSLR cameras?
suburbia:
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--- Quote from: briansquibb on April 24, 2012, 02:54:15 AM ---The issues about shooting from public land have been cleared up - the government and the police have issued with clear instructions that photographers have full rights to take pictures
Police are not even allowed to demand to see the pictures you have taken, nor confiscate your camera. They are however allowed to take your details if your are for example taking pictures of a military base that could be construed as possible terrorist information gathering.
To walk around London taking 'tourist' pictures should be totally free of interference although there seems to be some issues around the Olympic sites where there is heightened security.
I would imagine that all countries have the same problems
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Somewhere in one of the articles they said that you were specifically not allowed to use a tripod, but could hand hold.
Someone on this forum mentioned that there is a new law in NYC that bans the use of a tripod...
Does this strike anyone else as odd? And maybe a little unconstitutional?
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The only issue of tripod work in the UK is that there is a law about obstructing a public highway eg public access on a pavement so if you plonk a massive tripod down in the middle of a pavement and force people to walk into the road then you can be asked to remove it.
D.Sim:
Personally, I think if we think about it, if it keeps us safe, can we really complain?
No doubt it will be annoying... but if that one terrorist is stopped.... its done its job
wtlloyd:
Who decides whether it is a simple abuse of power, or a true security concern.
Perhaps citizens would best be kept confined somewhere, so the machinery of the state can proceed on its business unimpinged.
--- Quote from: D.Sim on April 24, 2012, 09:06:42 AM ---Personally, I think if we think about it, if it keeps us safe, can we really complain?
No doubt it will be annoying... but if that one terrorist is stopped.... its done its job
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stringfellow1946:
--- Quote from: Canon-F1 on April 24, 2012, 07:42:34 AM ---
i travel around europe a lot... and as i wrote in my first posting, nowhere i felt more unwelcome by the authorities.
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Then DON'T come back, SIMPLES
BillyBean:
--- Quote from: D.Sim on April 24, 2012, 09:06:42 AM ---Personally, I think if we think about it, if it keeps us safe, can we really complain?
No doubt it will be annoying... but if that one terrorist is stopped.... its done its job
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This type of attitude is incredibly dangerous.
If you go down this path, you are basically trusting that the police will always have your best interests at heart (easy to assume in England, but don't forget 1930s Germany).
You are also assuming that the safety justifies anything and everything, which is a bizarre, unbalanced view of the world. How would you like to be strip searched every time you went to the airport?
There is a balance in these things that we have spent the last 800 years trying to codify. Don't throw all this away because you trust the state - this is not about trust, it is about freedom and the law.
Next time, the state may decide YOU are the terrorist. Don't say it cannot happen - it already has - the law just makes it harder in England.
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