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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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[–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nah. If you're in public you have no reasonable expectation of privacy. Being able to film anyone in public for any reason must be protected, it's the only way to film bad people doing bad things. Imagine if the cops controlled the only cameras allowed to record cops? Ditto for politicians.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    Very true.

    How about making it so you cannot profit of a persons appearance without express consent. If you release a monetised video without consent of the person in it, then you will not receive that money until the matter is close and you have written consent.

    Edit: I see that might affect journalism too.

    If someone still pointed a phone at me for no reason, or even worse a pair of Pervert Specs, I'll still quite willingly break them apart and I'll feel in my right to do that (quite wrongly).

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  • [–] -2 points 1 week ago

    If you hate the idea of public places not being private so much you probably better just stay in your own home and never leave. That'd probably be best for all involved. You don't ever wind up in the background of someone's video, and there's one less crackpot yelling at the general public for doing totally normal things.

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