Burning Man Responds To EFF's Criticism of Policy

Briden writes "Earlier this week, we discussed the EFF's criticism of the Burning Man Photo Policy. Burning Man has now responded at length on their own blog. Here's an excerpt: 'In fact, there are but two essential reasons we maintain these increased controls on behalf of our community: to protect our participants so that images that violate their privacy are not displayed, and to prevent companies from using Burning Man to sell products. We don't remove images from pages just because they criticize us (I've never been involved in taking down an image from an editorial blog criticizing Burning Man, and it's certainly not because there haven't been any!). We're also not at all interested [in] preventing participants from sharing their personal imagery or impressions of the event on third party sharing sites in a noncommercial manner, so long as they observe the concerns about privacy and commercialism. We're delighted to see people sharing videos, stories, and pictures on our official Facebook page, and we know that it, along with Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, etc. are representative of the way many of us share personal imagery in the digital age.'"

Comments

Re:Public Event

[Khyber]

"BM is held on property that is leased for the event."

NO IT IS NOT. THE BLACK ROCK DESERT IS PUBLIC LAND AND THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT DOES NOT LEASE OUT PARCELS FOR TEMPORARY USAGE, ONLY PERMITS TO HOLD AN EVENT AT SUCH DESIGNATED LOCATION.

You don't need to be a fucking lawyer to know that one, you just need to have the skills to know how to read a fucking map and know which government agency to call/check with.

You are the moron.

Re:Public Event

[Khyber]

I will just point you to my above post and tell you to STFU, you spineless nameless faceless whore!