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I'm sure it's an unpopular opinion, but what she did is really shitty and she should be charged with it. She could have at least asked him to stop before destroying property.
It's really no different than if she smashed someone's phone because they were recording video in public.
We don’t actually know that she didn’t, unless you’ve got another article with more detail. This article is sparse in details, but it’s only his word in it that she didn’t talk to him. That nobody was bothered by it. That it went from 0-100 in the span of a look.
And idk about you, but that doesn’t sound all that likely to me, when everyone laughs at him for the consequences (seen in video). The whole thing screams this guy is an unreliable narrator. The whole thing to me reads like he knew he was pissing people off, like a YouTube prank channel sort of bother, and expected to walk away from it consequence free.
This article has a bit more detail and it does make him sound like a shitty prank channel sort that relies on annoying other people going about their lives. But again has no info about the encounter except his own words.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/imagine-being-based-guy-says-143000399.html
This is a very unpopular opinion in my opinion
I hate everything about the dude in the video but breaking his property is a shitty response.
Exactly, thanks for saying what we're all thinking: she absolutely should have broken his face
The problem with US society is a lack of shaming and negative enforcement.
Yeah. Should've broken his face too.
Unpopular unpopular opinion: recording public places for yourself shouldn't even be considered a bad tone. Distribution of those recordings should, unless they contain some illegal activity.
These go through Facebook's servers. This is not a private recording.
Counter point: if you start filming me in public without my permission your phone is getting smashed, and I don’t care how shitty anybody thinks it is.
I'm glad the law disagrees with you. Someone doing something you consider disrespectful doesn't justify assault and property damage.
It sounds like you have some anger control issues going on if that's your go-to response.
When you wake up and walk outside to the corner store, you've had like 40 devices filming you.... lol
Yeah but there’s a difference between a security cam and someone filming me to mock me on the internet. And for the record I’m not stoked about everything else filming me either.
https://www.foia.gov/ - Entire youtube channels with millions of followers request city camera, body cams, court cams, traffic cams.... everything... and mock you on the internet. I don't disagree with your feelings just reminding you of the world we live in.
If I could get away with it I would destroy those too.
Places where those cameras are required the most: police officers' cabins; mayors' and legislatives' offices.
Yeah but I can't reach that high
Time for a new iteration of the selfie stick!
The un-selfie stick
Those devices don't get in your face, aren't easily manuevered to film like a creep. Also the same device don't follow you around like a stalker.
Are those differences really that hard to see?
I think the internet has ruined many people’s perceptions of what is socially acceptable and that there may be consequences for harassing others.
That's why in video games I smash everything in order to be safe.
Aren't these usually CCTVs?
... Are you a cop or something?
If you're in a public space, people may be filming you.
It's a PUBLIC space, not yours. Your lack of self-control will rightly get you fucked up if you assault the wrong person, and there'll be a good chance of everyone watching a satisfying video of you getting punched while trying to take someone's phone.
TLDR: Control yourself, tough guy.
Here's different optics to consider: we know for many camera-enabled devices to deliver recordings to the cloud, where the data is used by authorities, often times in a very improper way.
In US, it is coordinating ICE raids; in other countries, it's other kinds of shady and inhumane acts.
Fighting this on the level of legislation is great...when it works. Overturning the power of a dictator authority or simply struggling against decisions that are made up above often takes illegal, brutal acts, or at least ones of misdemeanor.
It sure never hurts to ask someone to stop first, but then I can see an angle when refusal is going to escalate things badly for reasons that could be understood.
I think the assumption people are making here with my original comment is that I wouldn’t first tell them to stop and delete whatever they had recorded. Which is my fault because I can see that from the way I said it. But if that doesn’t work? Well, they don’t just get to keep doing it.
Funny how everyone agrees with the woman's actions and finds them satisfying instead.
Yet you are trying to use this argument to defend the asshole guy. Well, watch the video again and see how not a single person said anything, clearly they all agreed with the woman's actions and the guy got what he deserved.
Civil justice in progress when the laws and authorities fail.
Luckily laws can be changed. If there was a trial and a jury decided she is innocent, there would be precedent for all future cases to side with the person being filmed without consent and not the assholes.
"b... b... bUt iT wAs a PuBlIc PlaCe" - the assholes
So, creepy men are now allowed to stare and record videos of women because technology allows it?
Do you happen to work for ICE?
Stop what? Wouldn't there be a video of her breaking them if they were recording?
It was self defense, and defense of others around her. In my book, that's just about as much if not more than the police does these days.