Comments on: An unhealthy society? http://www.photolegal.com/index.php/2009/10/18/an-unhealthy-society/ A UK podcast about Photography and the Law Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:58:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ru_anderson http://www.photolegal.com/index.php/2009/10/18/an-unhealthy-society/comment-page-1/#comment-1901 Ru_anderson Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:45:51 +0000 http://www.photolegal.com/?p=833#comment-1901 at risk of seeming flippant : re the question "...have we allowed ourselves to become so narrow minded to make a now embarrassed grandfather feel obliged to delete his innocently taken photos fearing he has been labelled a predatory paedophile?" ans: Yes. as to "How? Not sure but at risk of being called a conspiracy theorist Im not at all sure it was by accident. Not least is the "avoid legal liability" mandate in councils which has lead to people on the ground feverently believing in dubious and poorly understood "safety first" policies. The legal right to take photos in public is rapidly restricted when the council lays claim as a pseudo private body to any and all free space not activly owned by soomeone else. the high street the shopping area and the park - according to staff on the ground - are no loner public areas. They are council owned properties open to the public. As such the councils word is law. That to me is not an accident its a deliberate and deeply unwelcome policy shift. I don't want to live in fudal times - surfdom isn't pleasent. at risk of seeming flippant :
re the question “…have we allowed ourselves to become so narrow minded to make a now embarrassed grandfather feel obliged to delete his innocently taken photos fearing he has been labelled a predatory paedophile?”
ans:
Yes.
as to “How?
Not sure but at risk of being called a conspiracy theorist Im not at all sure it was by accident.

Not least is the “avoid legal liability” mandate in councils which has lead to people on the ground feverently believing in dubious and poorly understood “safety first” policies.
The legal right to take photos in public is rapidly restricted when the council lays claim as a pseudo private body to any and all free space not activly owned by soomeone else. the high street the shopping area and the park – according to staff on the ground – are no loner public areas. They are council owned properties open to the public. As such the councils word is law.

That to me is not an accident its a deliberate and deeply unwelcome policy shift. I don’t want to live in fudal times – surfdom isn’t pleasent.

]]> By: Donald Goldsmith http://www.photolegal.com/index.php/2009/10/18/an-unhealthy-society/comment-page-1/#comment-1682 Donald Goldsmith Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:31:33 +0000 http://www.photolegal.com/?p=833#comment-1682 An unhealthy society? More like INSANE! Always had the impression the English were a little odd but the extent of this absurdity this makes your society downright NUTS!!! An unhealthy society? More like INSANE! Always had the impression the English were a little odd but the extent of this absurdity this makes your society downright NUTS!!!

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