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what if the security camera footage is needed to be shown publicly on the news or for a crime? what if someone takes a selfie and you are in the background? what if someone is recording a tiktok and you walk into frame? you dont know if they are posting it to get 10 likes from their friends or if they have 70k followers.
it's ridiculous to suggest that the number of people who see the photo somehow make it worse or better.
Also on how protective parents are of their kids potentially be in a photos background cuz "pedos" but then happily pose with their kids for 1st page on local newspaper giving away loo rolls during covid
Last time I checked pedos can buy newspapers
I would never take pictures of children due to the idea of pedos
Parents need to worry about the person with a 600mm telephoto, IF ANYONE WHICH IS UNLIKELY, not the guy with a Fuji x and 23mm trying to practise street photography.
unfortenately u can get picked on with anything.
I got asked straight up if I was a pedo by a dog walker at a public park, while sitting on a bench, cameras on the bench next to me turned off with lens caps on while waiting for a couple for their pre-wedding shoot once. Worth noting there was not a single human being other than the dog walker and myself in a 250+meter radius
My response to that would have been….unkind.
I’m somewhat lucky in that my physical size means people don’t pipe up too much, though that’s changing as the uk weirdly falls into the belief that nobody would ever punch them in the face (not that anyone should, but let’s not act like it doesn’t happen).
I once shot an incredibly beautiful photo of a child sitting on mum’s lap behind a booth at a farmers market in the USA. She was looking down lovingly and the child reached up with both hands to take her face. It was ADORABLE. she freaked out. Badly. I tried to show her the photo and she was basically shouting paedo and a crowd was forming. I called the police for her.
She would have absolutely loved that photo if she had just been a bit more calm.
Or better yet, they put images of their children in the bath on their socials because "that's different"