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Strong disagree.

The right to take photos of random people without consent in public spaces, is NOT the same as the right to publish those photos online for the world to see and as a theoretically permanent discoverable archive.



You must be extraordinarily naive to think that people take photos in public places without ever posting them online, by default.

And let me know one single instance where someone gets sued for posting a photo of someone appearing in public space in the US.


I’m not naive, I’m just saying they are two separate issues. The laws that allowed public photos predate social media.

People sue over much less in the US.




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