What Would You Do If a Random Stranger Pulled Out a Phone and Started Recording You in Public?
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(Let's say that this random stranger is a member of the same sex, same race, etc., as you)
It seems to me that most people become (irrationally?) angry when others record them in public. The reason for this anger seems somewhat obvious, especially in this digital age with all the camera phones, social media, exposés, and "worldstar" millennials.
But if recording someone in public is perfectly legal, then shouldn't a "law-abiding citizen" just accept it, or should one run the inevitable risk of escalating the situation to violence and then being charged (which is why I'm surprised that lowlifes haven't exploited this for fraud: just point your phone in someone's face, get punched, and then sue him)?
So should recording someone in public be legal? If so, would you get angry if someone started recording you? Should there be exceptions, like recording kids?
If you believe that public recording should be illegal, doesn't that violate the first amendment? Does that also mean that cops shouldn't be recorded?
It seems to me that most people become (irrationally?) angry when others record them in public. The reason for this anger seems somewhat obvious, especially in this digital age with all the camera phones, social media, exposés, and "worldstar" millennials.
But if recording someone in public is perfectly legal, then shouldn't a "law-abiding citizen" just accept it, or should one run the inevitable risk of escalating the situation to violence and then being charged (which is why I'm surprised that lowlifes haven't exploited this for fraud: just point your phone in someone's face, get punched, and then sue him)?
So should recording someone in public be legal? If so, would you get angry if someone started recording you? Should there be exceptions, like recording kids?
If you believe that public recording should be illegal, doesn't that violate the first amendment? Does that also mean that cops shouldn't be recorded?
What Would You Do If a Random Stranger Pulled Out a Phone and Started Recording You in Public? 26 votes
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I wouldn't care.I see people recording me all the time when I street preach. I praise ? because they will more than likely show it to somebody later and the word of ? will reach that much further. Hallelujah!
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Wouldn't like it but I wouldn't devote a whole bunch of energy to it..if I'm out in public it's prolly because I had something to do so I would just carry on with ever I was set out to do. It's only a problem if dude like follows me home or some crazy ? then I can just legally Stand My Ground
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Flip the the bird or just ask why they're recording. It all depends on where I'm at and what I'm doing, really.
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? creepy as ? but not worth fighting over immediately. Hopefully i can continue my day without incident but to me that ? is a version of harassment.
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Other (specify)If they're recording me just to be a ? , flip the phone out their hand and stomp on it till it breaks.
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Im never in public
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Other (specify)Waive and give them the finger
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Other (specify)? .
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Other (specify)Probably start doing some really dumb offensive ? like smellin my hand after it's been in ass then try and touch them
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Other (specify)I would walk away.
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I would violently confront the stranger.Whoop their ass cause my ? sessions are private
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twentyfivelighters wrote: »
came in to post this.. GOAT video -
I would violently confront the stranger.wen i see that ? i tell them striaght i better not be in that video
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I would violently confront the stranger.but sometimes when i see people video tapin i make random faces LMFAOOO