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The Instagram and TikTok harassment loophole leaving London women exposed (www.londoncentric.media)
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If you approach the same woman twice on the street and ask her sexually explicit questions, you could be arrested for harassment by the Metropolitan Police. But some London content creators have discovered that if you approach a different woman every day, film yourself doing it and post the results to TikTok or Instagram, then you can rack up millions of views – and the police can’t do anything.

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[–] 3 points 6 days ago (4 children)

What about if I film someone kicking a kitten? Do they get the right to destroy my camera too?

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  • [–] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

    As I said, there are a myriad of issues with what I propose, for a start, creating such a law that affects this specific problem alone.

    It think it should follow rules like journalists that something like that is in the public interest. It's a difficult thing to negotiate or otherwise we end up in the same situation as with the SLAPP laws where they get abused by the rich.

    I do believe it should be everyone's right that, if they don't want to appear or be heard on Camera, they should not.

    I find it extremely problematic that everyone is carrying a recording device in their pocket, and the first thing that happens as soon as something is uploaded, is that it's processed by a private companies AI, and it seems the we are powerless to do anything about it at all.

    Until you make an actionable law that punishes the creators and the host services, your rights to a private life will just continue to be eaten away for someone else's profit.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    It's currently a shitty situation for those being filmed by fucknuggets like this, but the law in this country is that you have no expectation of privacy in a public place. That would need to change to accommodate anything like you're suggesting. Lots of companies and corporations would be very happy to see that change but I'm not convinced it would be a change for the good. It could, for example, prevent you from legally taking a photo of your kids at the beach if there's anyone else on the beach. Likewise, photos at tourist attractions. No more photos at gigs or festivals.

    As for 'the public interest', that's subjective. What Stephen Yaxley-Lennon would consider in the public interest is likely very different to what you or I would consider to be in the public interest.

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