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German Photog Wants to Shoot Buildings Excluded From Street View
crf00 writes with this report excerpted from Blogoscoped: "'Spiegel reports that German photographer and IT consultant Jens Best wants to personally take snapshots of all those (German) buildings which people asked Google Street View to remove. He then wants to add those photos to Picasa, including GPS coordinates, and in turn re-connect them with Google Maps. Jens believes that for the internet 'we must apply the same rules as we do in the real world. Our right to take panoramic snapshots, for instance, or to take photographs in public spaces, both base laws which determine that one may photograph those things that are visible from public streets and places.' Jens says that for his belief in the right of photographing in public places, as last resort he's even willing to go to jail. Spiegel says Jens already found over 200 people who want to help out in this project and look for removed locations in Google Street View, as there's no official list of such places published by Google."
It's standing up for my rights because I prefer my maps to be uncensored and complete.
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You're invoking causation with the words "lead to". Causation is something that can't be assessed by a simple X follows Y in time relationship. It takes a lot more to persuasively show causation.
In fact, it's quite possible that Google Earth stalking NEVER causes people to stand in bushes. Considering the number of people who use Google Earth but never stand in bushes, I'd say you have your work cut out for you if you intend to convince anybody of your hypotheses.
Of course, people in the Teabagger Party will believe you. They believe all kinds of wild shit.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!