New York Moves To Ban Public Filming And Photography

[Pred]

Everyone needs to see this, America is slowly turning into the UK. Remember this when they finally come for our guns.

With vague reasoning and little explanation, moves are afoot in the city of New York to stamp out all forms of filming in public, be it by professional television crews, protestors or simply by tourists on sightseeing trips.

Some tourists, amateur photographers, even would-be filmmakers hoping to make it big on YouTube could soon be forced to obtain a city permit and $1 million in liability insurance before taking pictures or filming on city property, including sidewalks, reports the New York Times.

Though the Mayor’s Office of Film has said that the new rules are not aimed at families on vacation or amateur filmmakers or photographers, the enforcement would require any group of two or more people who want to use a camera in public for more than a half hour to get a city permit and insurance. The same ruling would also apply to any group of five or more people who plan to use a tripod in a public location for more than 10 minutes, including the time it takes to set up the equipment.

Even people simply holding cameras could be subject to the rules, the ACLU says.

New York Moves To Ban Public Filming And Photography

[troy2000]

They're PROTECTING us. They can do anything they want, as long as they explain they're doing it to stop terrorists.

And of course, they know the type of people these rules were written to target. You may rest assured it would never cross their minds to use them to bully innocent, civic-minded citizens...

[just_a_car]

Hm, wonder if they've had a recent rash of people filming government employees doing "bad" things... *smirk*

Something to look into, haven't done so myself....

[Pred]

Originally Posted by troy2000

They're PROTECTING us.

.... DOH! Forgot about that, how silly of me.