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Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town
Barence writes "A Google Street View car has been chased out of a British village by angry residents. The car was taking photographs of Broughton in Buckinghamshire for Google's when it was spotted by a local resident who warned the car not to enter the village then roused his neighbors, who surrounded the vehicle until the driver performed a U-turn and left. 'This is an affluent area,' protester Paul Jacobs said. 'We've already had three burglaries locally in the past six weeks. If our houses are plastered all over Google it's an invitation for more criminals to strike. I was determined to make a stand, so I called the police.'"
I don't want my house and car on the internet for the same reasons this town has said. Want to case out a street and see the best way to rob, car jack, or even see my neighbors and family members for all to see so easily. What happened to privacy? If I want to be famous i'll be on a reality tv show.
3 burglaries in 6 weeks. Awesome. Gun control stops crime.
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British socialist idiots made self defense illegal. These village idiots already have a burglary & robbery problem, so they imagine safety by not having pictures. Same flavor of idiot as the California politician that wants CA schools blurred in Google to prevent terrorist attacks. Makes me wonder if he has a speech about how terrorism started after AlGore invented the Internet.
IANAL, but anything plainly viewable from public property is not considered private.
No you're definately not a lawyer, nor did you apparently think about what you just said for longer than it took to write it.
So if I set up my high powered telescope in the park and use it to post pictures of what goes in inside your house online for my own commerical gain, that's fine with you? Do you really think that's legal?
Laws governing photography are lagging way behind the technology and they won't catch until there are topless photos of some senator's daugther sunbathing all over the internet. That said, there as still laws on the books. Someone simply can't use the excuse "I'm on public property" to photograph anything you want for commercial gain.
Look into regulations for shooting movies in certain cities for example.
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Google is doing the work of Islamic Jihadists, gathering data for the next terrorist strike.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/3565918/Mumbai-attacks-Terrorist-suspect-arrested-in-February-had-Bombay-attack-plans.html
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Fuck off. I'd be the first one throwing molotov cocktails at the fucking Google van if I had to.
Assuming these people are not crooks, they earned more from society by providing society with some form of goods or services. They've already given to society what society wanted. Why should society now get freebies? If what society wants is "more for less" then they should stop paying sixty fucking dollars for a video game, or over a hundred dollars for a damn concert ticket. These people are filthy stinking rich because 'society' keeps giving them money.
The way I see it you have three options. Either become one of those people, stop giving them money, or shut the hell up.
The thing you're missing is, you can't get that kind of rich without being a crook, and every one of them are. Either you're naive, and you don't understand the realities of the situation, or you're one of the crooks, and you've normalized what you did to get there. There are no nice rich people.
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The only thing you've pointed out is that most people are hypocrites, not that they would actually choose to have Street View were they forced to choose having it or having their house not publicly displayed.