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Citizens Spy On Big Brother

An anonymous reader writes "Citizens of the world are striking back at 24/7 state surveillance by pulling out their cameraphones and filming inept officials, deadly healthcare lapses and thuggish cops. So-called Sous-veillance is seeing more and more people posting damning footage of official misdemenours to sites such as YouTube to shame them into action." I wonder what happens if you inform a cop that you are recording him when he pulls you over.

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  1. Marge Simpson said it years ago by ChrisCampbell47 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The courts might not work anymore, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be served."

    Marge Simpson

  2. Re:You wonder? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please half of you guys never get out of the house let alone get pulled over!

  3. Re:don't inform the cop you're recording him. by daveatneowindotnet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Beats me

    What's funny is at first I assumed your were answering the question as opposed to admitting ignorance.

  4. Re:You wonder? by demonbug · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, those damn cops are always going after the gay lefties. It's no wonder we've got such an enormous prison overcrowding problem here in California.

  5. Re:You wonder? by CaptSaltyJack · · Score: 5, Funny

    I personally am tired of the discrimination against left-handed people.

  6. Seussveillance by Kamineko · · Score: 5, Funny

    Forget Sousveillance, you want Seussveillance. You have to wear a big long stripey jumper and speak in rhymes.

    'Excuse me officer, would you mind,
    would I be fined, maligned or confined,
    if I were to tape your daily grind?

    Sir, I'd like to believe,
    that you and me we've
    both come to perceive
    That your job affords you - the responsibility to be true!

    (I couldn't conceive of a way you'd
    deceive me my friend, aggreive or bereave!)

    A hasty repreive!; My hypothetical weave
    does you an injustice. (And speaking of justice)

    Enough of confession: let's return to my question.
    I got impression of obsession with oppression.
    Is this a true fact, or idle digression?
    Would recording your good self be found a transgression?

    Am I a free man?

    or need I grab my tape, my cape and escape?'

  7. Re:You wonder? by Jason+Levine · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're only jealous because we lefties are the only ones in our right minds.

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    My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
  8. Re:Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 4, Funny

    What are you, some kind of Godwin's Law Nazi? You know, Hitler was always accusing people of pushing the boundaries of Godwin's Law.

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    ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
  9. Re:You wonder? by afedaken · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can see the video folder on your media server...

    "2006.07.21 - Cancun vacation"
    "2006.11 - Winter Storm: The tree comes down"
    "Pron"
    "2007.04.15 - Cops beat me to a pulp"
    "2007.06.31 - Mikey's first piano recital"

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    If there's a castle floating upside down in the sky, then there's a castle floating upside down in the sky.
  10. Re:You wonder? by KudyardRipling · · Score: 3, Funny

    And after the cops find out that they have been remotely recorded...

    drwxrwxrwx 12 root root 4096 2008-06-12 09:28 kinderporn
    drwxrwxrwx 12 root root 4096 2001-09-11 08:47 al-qaida_manuals
    -rw-r--r-- 18 root root 1048576 2008-06-12 12:53 drug_dealer_phone_numbers

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    Submission as evidence constitutes plaintiff and/or prosecutorial misconduct.
  11. Re:Get what you pay for by Mr.+Firewall · · Score: 3, Funny

    How many in the Slashdot crowd would quit their jobs to be a police officer? It is a low paid profession....

    Not when you count the income from bribes....

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    In times of universal deceit, telling the truth gets you modded -1 Troll