Comments on: Google Street View Captures Man/Woman Peeing In the Street http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/12/google_street_view_captures_manwoman_peeing_in_the_street-2/ the Gadget Guide | Technology and consumer electronics news and reviews Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:23:20 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: BigFan http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/12/google_street_view_captures_manwoman_peeing_in_the_street-2/comment-page-1/#comment-14143 BigFan Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:17:09 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/12/google_street_view_captures_manwoman_peeing_in_the_street-2.html#comment-14143 <p>@ easy2panic: this is one of the biggest cases of useless intellectual snobbery i have ever seen.<br /> "have you read 1984? don't even comment until you have"<br /> what? because someone hasn't read a book they can't comment on issues of cameras and privacy? i have read 1984, great, i now have orwell's liberalist views on privacy, goverment power, etc. it doesnt make me more qualified to comment on this topic, because in all seriousness, you don't need to read 1984 to come up with a view like, 'surveillance is bad'. thats a view pushed in orwells 1984 (but that's his liberalist view), i'm sure you'll find many many people who will argue that a limiting of personal liberty is fair if it provides greater security.</p> <p>and these cameras don't come anywhere close to 1984 levels...google streetview should be viewed as an extension of conventional maps...everyone is all like "ohhh shit, people can see the tree in my front yard!>!?!?!" yeh...a tree that anyone can see anyway. man up, seriously</p> @ easy2panic: this is one of the biggest cases of useless intellectual snobbery i have ever seen.
“have you read 1984? don’t even comment until you have”
what? because someone hasn’t read a book they can’t comment on issues of cameras and privacy? i have read 1984, great, i now have orwell’s liberalist views on privacy, goverment power, etc. it doesnt make me more qualified to comment on this topic, because in all seriousness, you don’t need to read 1984 to come up with a view like, ’surveillance is bad’. thats a view pushed in orwells 1984 (but that’s his liberalist view), i’m sure you’ll find many many people who will argue that a limiting of personal liberty is fair if it provides greater security.

and these cameras don’t come anywhere close to 1984 levels…google streetview should be viewed as an extension of conventional maps…everyone is all like “ohhh shit, people can see the tree in my front yard!>!?!?!” yeh…a tree that anyone can see anyway. man up, seriously

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